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 ...

Starring Klára Kolonits, Gabriella Balga, and Juraj Hollý in the leading roles, conducted by Martin Rajna and directed by Máté Szabó, a full-scale stage production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.