Elza van den Heever in the Met’s Maria Stuarda. Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera This a banner year for Donizetti at the Metropolitan Opera, propelled by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s ambition to ...

and Elza van den Heever as Elisabetta (l-to-r). Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera. With MARIA STUARDA at the Met, we're back for the second installment of Donizetti's so-called Tudor Trilogy, with ...

Two royal queens face off in a room, delivering thundering arias. Who cares if it probably never happened in real life, especially when you have diva and mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato as Mary, Queen of ...

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 ...

Joyce DiDonato will sing the title role in Maria Stuarda, Gaetano Donizetti‘s opera about the battle of wills between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. DiDonato is coming back to Houston ...

Joyce DiDonato stars as the martyred Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto showcase. A searingly dramatic setting of Friedrich Schiller’s play about Mary, Queen of Scots, and her political ...

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Opera Bel Canto's founder, Micaele Sparacino, is an enthusiastic proponent of Gaetano Donizetti's operas. On Sunday afternoon he led his company in the Washington concert premiere of a new critical ...

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Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play Maria Stuart.