Maria Stuarda | Trailer
This essential bel canto work, which, together with Roberto Devereux and Anna Bolena, completes Donizetti's trilogy of Tudor queens, will be premiered at the Real. A new production by David McVicar. Starring in the dramatic confrontation between Mary Stuart and her executor, Queen Elizabeth I, will be the voices of Lisette Oropesa, Yolanda Auyanet, Ismael Jordi, Silvia Tro Santafé, Aigul Akhmetshina and Airam Hernández, among others.
Lyrical tragedy in two acts
Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of the play Maria Stuarda by Friedrich von Schiller
First performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 30 December 1835.
Premiere at the Teatro Real
New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Donizetti Opera Festival - Bergamo, La Monnaie/De Munt of Brussels and the Finnish National Opera (Suomen kansallisooppera ja -baletti).
Artistic team
Conductor: Jose Miguel Pérez-Sierra
Stage direction and additional costumes: David McVicar
Scenography: Hannah Postlethwaite
Costumes: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting: Lizzie Powell
Direction of movement: Gareth Mole
Chorus master: José Luis Basso
Cast
Elisabetta: Aigul Akhmetshina
Maria Stuarda: Lisette Oropesa
Roberto, conde de Leicester: Ismael Jordi
Giorgio Talbot: Roberto Tagliavini
Lord Guglielmo Cecil: Andrzej Filonczyk
Anna Kennedy: Elissa Pfaender
Mercedes Gancedo
Coro y Orquesta Titulares del Teatro Real
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