Mary, Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, has fascinated historians and writers throughout the centuries. Alexandre Dumas wrote a biography of her, and more recently, Antonia Fraser crafted a ...

Acclaimed Melbourne soprano Helena Dix returns from an internationally broadcasted performance in the title role of Norma at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, to make her debut as Maria Stuarda for ...

In the years of the “Risorgimento”, the Italian independence movement in the first half of the 19th century, the idea of an opera being banned because of the effect it had on the public hardly raised ...

If director Tom Creed and designer Katie Davenport throw in more than a dash of camp around the central conflict, that’s mostly par for the course. The contemporary look is only dress-deep, but then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jan. 4 and Jan. 8 at 7:30: The concept of staging three of Donizetti’s operas about Tudor queens was a brilliant vehicle for the talents of Beverly Sills during the golden age of New York City Opera.

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 ...

Two queens. One crown. One lover between them. And a date with the executioner at the end for one of the three. Donizetti's opera "Maria Stuarda" has all the makings of a bloody good time at the opera ...

The second opera of Donizetti's Tudor trilogy, starring Joyce DiDonato as Mary, Queen of Scots and Elza van den Heever as Elizabeth I. Maurizio Benini conducts.