Royal Opera Night: 'Gloriana' Premiere (1953) | British Pathé
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2014
- Several members of the Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth II herself, attend the 1953 premiere of the opera 'Gloriana' at the Royal Opera House in this spectacular archive footage.
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(FILM ID:90.08)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Premier of opera "GLORIANA".
GV of guests in Foyer. SV. Queen Salote of Tonga arriving. SV. Clement Attlee shaking hands. Shots of guests from the Commonwealth in their traditional costumes. Lord Woolton. SV. Mr Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada in foyer. SV. Mr Sydney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand arriving. SV. Mr Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister in foyer, talking to Sir John Anderson. SV. Pan, Pandit Jahawarlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister walking through foyer, he is accompanied by his daughter Indira Gandhi. SV. Field Marshal Viscount Harold Alexander, British Defence Minister. SV. Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe talking to woman in foyer. SV. Sir David Eccles, Minister of Works talking to woman in foyer. MV. Crown Prince Olav and party arriving, being greeted. SV. Duke and Duchess of Gloucester arriving and being greeted. SV. Duchess of Kent and Princess Royal arriving and talking to Crown Prince Olav, of Norway. SV. Duchess of Kent. SV. Earl and Countess of Athlone, walking through foyer. SV Princess Marie Louise alighting from car. MV. Pan, Countess of Harewood being greeted in foyer. SV. Earl of Harewood being greeted. SV. Lady Edwina Mountbatten and daughter, Pamela shaking hands with Sir John Anderson and Lady Anderson.
MV. Lord Waverly (Chairman of the Port of London) escorting Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. They are greeted in foyer by woman and man. LV. Queen Mother and Margaret, chatting to officials. SV. Princess Margaret shaking hands and chatting. She then walks behind Queen Mother. SCU. Queen Mother and Margaret. MV. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh being greeted. Sir John Anderson introducing woman to Queen Elizabeth II. Queen then walks over and talks to Queen Mother. LV. Back view, Royal party making way upstairs. Pan across empty royal box. MV. Queen and party enter box. Fanfare starts. SCU Queen Elizabeth II. SCU. Prince Philip standing in box, pan to Queen Mother. SCU Queen. GV. Royal box.
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Such classy times back then
Yep
@@hannahdraper Yeah, unlike that bench-alcoholic look among and that even Swedes +70?!
RIP Queen Elizabeth II👑
RIP Elizabeth II Regina 🌹🇬🇧
That look from Margaret!
So glamorous
Ahh bring back royal splendour..
Amazing! I love it!
The Princess Royal today - Princess Anne , in looks , is astonishingly like her late aunt, the Princess Royal, Princess Mary ?
Everyone is making their entrance and some in some grand manners, but the Queen enters very humbly, no sophisticated dress, a simple ermine cape, and tiara; so young, yet she is THE GUEST.
A tiara of real gems is NEVER "simple". 🥴
@@itoo3654 she said the dress is simple. I see celebs wearing more lavishing gowns
I doubt politicians or royalty would be made to sit through an opera performance these days. I wonder what opera it was.
As it says in the description, Benjamin Britten's Gloriana. this was the world premiere, part of the coronation celebrations.
Not that far back UK Prime Minister John Major and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl would gladly have been at the opera as would Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani, LA DA Gil Garcetti. US Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia have been known to attend opera performances together.
Is there going to be an opera written about King Charles I or II?
Sit through an opera ? Have you ever been to the opera? It’s an amazing experience. Try it you might like it.
It was Gloriana.😊
Margaret 😍
According to Britten's biographer Christopher Headington, the premiere of Gloriana was almost a failure. Few audience applauded at the final curtain, and Britten leaned over from the box, muttering "Clap, damn you, clap."
Amid all this splendour the UK was still on rationing. It finally ended in 1954. Forgive me if I find this display of wealth and privilege a little irksome. Rationing was still in place a whole 9 years after the end of WWII !
@joed1162 not all rationing was in place till 1954, some rationing ended sooner
and rationing was for all the population
and life started getting back to normal here in Britain as soon as possible after the war, not all events were for the wealthy, the ideal home exhibitions began again in 1947 and the festival of britain took place in 1951
and there were others
Mr.nehru and indira Gandhi were there my goodness
That is not Queen Salote.
@@michaelmontagu3979 It wasn't. That lady is too small to be Queen Salote who was 6ft 2in in her bare feet and weighed 20 stone. Besides which, Queen Salote was accompanied by her daughter in law Crown Princess Mata'aho (the late Queen Mother of Tonga) who would have been in the car with her.
@@charmainelamont2020 Just watched it with my specs on. It wasn't. No idea who she was.
@@michaelmontagu3979 Neither have I, never seen her before.. Queen Salote would never have stepped out of a car without thanking the man who helped her out and she always had a big smile on her face. That woman didn't even crack the enamel.
That’s what I thought, her face looks completely different.
Nehru is a part of this wow 😱
Poor princess Margaret 😞
why do you say poor-she looked as if she was jealous of the queen getting all the attention
@@KingoftheRoad-2023 I think left out is a better way of looking at it!
The woman had unimaginable wealth and power when most people had nothing why do you feel sorry for her?
@@notnek202 because she looks as though she’s being left out!
Anyone else think Philip and the Queens dad look very similar
Well. They are related. Second cousins through Christian X of Denmark.
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With such an audience of non opera goers, the Britten work of course had to be a flop.
This may well have been the first opera that the Queen had been to, and probably gave her her known dislike of opera. Indeed, 'Gloriana' was the first opera that I ever went to (no, it wasn't this performance!) and it left me cold, a chill that it took Rita Hunter singing Brünnhilde to defrost - and now I am completely sold on opera!
Bunch of old ladies in crowns. Jeeze. That one getting out of the vehicle looked 150. I imagine there was a lot of posturing going on. I don’t guess they showed a cartoon 🤷🏽♂️
The Queen was young