Overview
Maria Stuarda is a searingly dramatic setting of Friedrich Schiller’s play about Mary, Queen of Scots, and her political and personal rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I of England. While based relatively closely on historical characters and events, the opera’s central scene is fictional: the highly emotional meeting of the queens that concludes the first act (originally invented by Schiller) never took place. It’s a dramatic device that brilliantly highlights the two women’s contrasting characters.
Cast
- Sonia Ganassi as Elisabetta
- Joseph Calleja as Leicester
- Riccardo Zanellato as Talbot
- Marzio Giossi as Lord Cecil
- Cinzia Rizzoni as Anna Kennedy
- Cinzia Rizzoni as Anna Kennedy
- Carmela Remigio as Maria Stuarda