Maria Stuarda Starring Joyce DiDonato as Mary, Queen of Scots Premieres on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met ... David McVicar directs the first-ever Met production of Donizetti's opera, the second part of the composer's famous "Tudor trilogy" with South African soprano Elza van den Heever as Elizabeth I, Mary's formidable rival, and Matthew Polenzani as the Earl of Leicester NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joyce DiDonato stars as Mary, Queen of Scots, in the first-ever Met production of ...
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Antonio Pappano in Times Online ...Italia!, as part of its A Passion for Opera season, commencing on BBC4 in May."It's three one-hour programmes about Italian opera," Pappano says, "from Monteverdi to Rossini and Donizetti to Verdi, then the final one is Puccini and...
Anthony Tommasini in Houston Chronicle He was the audience favorite at the finals concert "with a bright, clear focused voice and an engaging stage personality who won huge ovations for musically crisp, vocally confident accounts of arias by Rossini and Donizetti," wrote Anthony...