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, ...

The Met Opera shared a trailer for Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, starring Lisette Oropesa as Mary, Queen of Scots, in a ...

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 ...

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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 - ...

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 ...

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 first-ever Met production of Donizetti’s opera stars Joyce DiDonato as Mary, Queen of Scots with South African soprano Elza van den Heever as Elizabeth I, Mary’s formidable rival, and Matthew ...

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 ...