Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title role of Mary, Queen of Scots, the second of the three queens in Donizetti’s celebrated operas about the Tudor court. Soprano Elza van den Heever is Elisabetta – Queen Elizabeth I of England, Mary’s arch-nemesis – a role she sang to acclaim in the opera’s Met premiere in 2012. And Spanish tenor Celso Albelo makes his Met debut this season as Leicester, who is loved by both women. Riccardo Frizza conducts the performance, which also features Patrick Carfizzi and Kwangchul Youn as the courtiers, Lord Cecil and Lord Talbot.
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LIBRETTO
In Italian:
http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/mstuarda.htm
In English:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6791/6791-h/6791-h.htm#link2H_4_0002