Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Irish National Opera's new production of Donizetti's magnificently stirring opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.