Irish National Opera's new production of Donizetti's magnificently stirring opera Maria Stuarda is the company's first ever production of a work by one of opera's most prolific and popular composers - ...

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 ...

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, ...

Joyce DiDonato stars in the Met premiere of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, in a new production by Scottish director David McVicar, opening with a gala performance on New Year's Eve. The opera, which ...

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Soprano Diana Damrau, following her triumph as Violetta in last season’s new production of Verdi’s La Traviata, stars as the martyred Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto showcase. Star ...

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 ...

For 36 years, Opera Sacra, under the guidance of the Rev. Jacob Ledwon, has brought a wide variety of operatic works with religious underpinnings to Western New York. They've ranged from medieval ...