so-discreetly-sympathetic:

„Henry VIII is a fascinating figure, but he shouldn’t sing in a musical. His daughter, Elisabeth I, is another matter. She sings very well indeed in one of Benjamin Britten‘s least appreciated but most inventive operas, Gloriana, because she is everything at once: King and woman, power and love. She turns men into bottoms; that’s a show!“

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