Mary Stuart | Opera review

Grand, LeedsCan Donizetti's Mary Stuart ever work when separated from history? It's a thorny question, posed, if inadequately answered, by Antony McDonald's new staging for Opera North. Donizetti's take on the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I notably departs from fact. There's that famous slanging match between the two queens, who, of course, never met in actuality. Donizetti, viewing Mary as a repentant sinner heading for martyrdom, also allocates her the responsibility...

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