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 - ...

4 Photos: First Look at Janáček's JENŮFA at Lyric Opera of Chicago Sondra Radvanovsky sings the second of the three Queens in Donizetti's "Tudor trilogy" when she stars as the devout, doomed Mary, ...

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 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 ...

In the mood for 'The Metropolitan Opera Maria Stuarda' right from your couch? Here’s where you can watch it, including streaming and cable services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so ...

Even if the Metropolitan Opera’s current revival of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda fails to make much of a case for the piece as a musical drama—and that’s as much the fault of the composer as the Met’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only moments earlier the same faction had cheered Joyce DiDonato to the Covent Garden rafters, so they should be chastened by their heroine’s subsequent tweet: "People need to understand that great ...