Maria Stuarda

MARIA STUARDA (GAETANO DONIZETTI)

This essential work of bel canto which, together with Roberto Devereux and Anna Bolena, completes the trilogy of the Tudor queens, is premiered at the Real with a new production by David McVicar. Voices starring in the dramatic confrontation between Mary Stuart and her executioner Elizabeth I include Lisette Oropesa, Yolanda Auyanet, Ismael Jordi and Aigul Akhmetshina.

Lyrical tragedy in two acts

Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei’s translation of Friedrich von Schiller’s play Maria Stuarda

Premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 30 December 1835

Premiere at the Teatro Real

New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Donizetti Opera Festival – Bergamo and La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels
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Artistic team

Musical conductor: Jose Miguel Pérez-Sierra

Stage direction: David McVicar

Set design: Hannah Postlethwaite

Costumes: Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting: Lizzie Powell

Direction of movement: Gareth Mole

Chorus master: José Luis Basso
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Cast

Elisabetta: Aigul Akhmetshina __ 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 dec

Silvia Tro Santafé __ 16, 19, 27, 30 dec

Maria Stuarda: Lisette Oropesa __ 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 dec

Yolanda Auyanet __ 16, 19, 27, 30 dec

Earl of Leicester: Ismael Jordi __ 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 dec

Airam Hernández __ 16, 19, 27, 30 dec

Giorgio Talbot: Roberto Tagliavini __ 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 dec

Krzysztof Baczyk __ 16, 19, 27, 30 dec

Lord Guglielmo Cecil: Andrzej Filonczyk __ 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 dic

Simon Mechlinski __ 16, 19, 27, 30 dec

Anna Kennedy: Elissa Pfaender __ 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 dec

Mercedes Gancedo __ 16, 19, 27, 30 dec
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Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real