Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda - DVD

Description

On New Year’s Eve 2012 Joyce DiDonato became the first singer to take the title role in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. With her at its heart, the production became, in the words of Opera magazine, “a high point of the seasonand of the company’s performance history of bel canto operas”.

New Year’s Eve 2012 brought the first-ever performance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, famed for its incendiary – if fictional – confrontation between Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots) and Queen Elizabeth I of England.

As the New York Times wrote: “The production stars the great American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role ... [Her] performance will be pointed to as a model of singing in whichall components of the art form – technique, sound, color, nuance, diction – come together in service to expression and eloquence.” The performance on this DVD took place on January 19th 2013 and was broadcast to cinemas around the world.