Seattle Opera: Donizetti’s 'Mary Stuart'
$25 & up
Donizetti – Mary Stuart
HISTORIC CONFRONTATION WITH SEARING EMOTIONS. Two icons of British royalty, Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, clash in a powerful story of jealousy, pity, doubt, menace, exaltation, and remorse. Extravagant period costumes and virtuosic bel canto singing heighten the many moods of this haunting, unforgettable battle of wills. Does Elizabeth retain her nobility and show clemency to her rival? Or will spite and ambition drive her to seal Mary’s grisly fate? Join us at the palace and see!
– In Italian with English subtitles
– Approximate running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes with 1 intermission
--> LMP CRITIC'S PICK. Hear a royal battle in glorious Donizetti arias between two queens – Mary of Scotland and Elizabeth of England – over who should sit on the throne of England, combined with passion, intrigue, ambition, favorites and more. Possession was nine points of the law in the 16th century and Elizabeth won while Mary lost not just the throne but her head. Enjoy some history, and this is history, in one of its most colorful eras, at Seattle Opera’s Mary Stuart, with sumptuous Elizabethan costumes. ~ Philippa Kiraly, classical music critic