Donizetti's operas about Tudor England play fast and loose with historical accuracy, but should they – and can they – be recontextualised out of period? It's a question inevitably raised by Welsh ...

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 ...

Last night, the Salzburg Festival staged Maria Stuarda, Donizetti’s opera from 1835. On the stage were two leading American singers, at the height of their powers. It was a very good night of singing, ...

Opera Bel Canto's founder, Micaele Sparacino, is an enthusiastic proponent of Gaetano Donizetti's operas. On Sunday afternoon he led his company in the Washington concert premiere of a new critical ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We live in an age when even tenors can sing coloratura, which is one reason American opera companies have ...

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 ...

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Composed by an Italian, reworked from a German play based on a nonexistent episode in British history, Maria Stuarda has always suffered an identity crisis. Music aside – a rather big aside since ...

One royal (woman) saying it, in public, to another—okay to print that? Right after the weekend’s jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth? Which women? Meghan and Kate? It must be viral! Why can’t I ...

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 ...