Katie Van Kooten says she usually plays “the whimpering, dying person no one loves.” So she jumped at the chance to portray Queen Elizabeth I — “someone who has power and destiny” — in Houston Grand ...

and Elza van den Heever as Elisabetta (l-to-r). Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera. With MARIA STUARDA at the Met, we're back for the second installment of Donizetti's so-called Tudor Trilogy, with ...

Two royal queens face off in a room, delivering thundering arias. Who cares if it probably never happened in real life, especially when you have diva and mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato as Mary, Queen of ...

Last night, the Salzburg Festival staged Maria Stuarda, Donizetti’s opera from 1835. On the stage were two leading American singers, at the height of their powers. It was a very good night of singing, ...

Opera Bel Canto's founder, Micaele Sparacino, is an enthusiastic proponent of Gaetano Donizetti's operas. On Sunday afternoon he led his company in the Washington concert premiere of a new critical ...