Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda is an opera with a troubled performance history, a litany of misfortune that diverted attention from a piece that includes some of the composer’s best work. There were ...

A compelling tale of palace intrigues and a love triangle, Maria Stuarda is a masterpiece of Italian romanticised poetic vision of the English imperial court in the Tudor era, loosely based on the ...

The historical specificities of Donizetti’s story make it particularly resistant to directorial innovation. Whichever way you play it there’s still an awful lot of talk of axes and beheading, ...

The 2019-2020 season of The Met: Live in HD closes Saturday, May 9 with Donizetti’s MARIA STUARDA at 12:55 pm in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre. A complimentary 45-minute pre-opera lecture by Dr.

Despite the political context, Donizetti’s Henry VIII was driven mainly by his infatuations; and for Frey, much the same is true of the two queens in Maria Stuarda. His Elizabeth I, Adina Nitescu, is ...

A fateful meeting between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots is the centrepiece of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. Elizabeth never set foot in Fotheringhay Castle, where she had imprisoned her ...