Maria Stuarda

Submitted by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (LR-228514). Maria Stuarda Gaetano Donizetti Donizetti's portrait of two Queens thirsty for as much power as for love passion. Distribution Ermonela Jaho Maria Stuarda Marina Viotti Elisabetta Levy Sekgapane Leicester Michele Pertusi Talbot Lodovico Filippo Ravizza Cecil Marine Chagnon Anna Kennedy Orchestre from Paris Choeur Les Eléments Clelia Cafiero direction In a few words Donizetti, succeeding Rossini and preceding Verdi, He played a decisive role in the evolution of Italian opera in the nineteenth century. A prolific musician, he is the author of seventy-one operas. Maria Stuarda is the second installment in his trilogy of "English Queens" inaugurated with Anna Bolena and concluded with Roberto Devereux. The action takes place on an island in the north of Europe where two queens, the Catholic Mary and the Anglican Elizabeth, wage a merciless war for power but also for the conquest of the same man. In the end, only one will emerge victorious from this lyrical drama as expansive as it is melancholic. Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées