Donizetti - Maria Stuarda (1975) torrent

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Donizetti - Maria Stuarda

Joan Sutherland Maria Stuarda ; Huguette Tourangeau Elisabetta ; Luciano Pavarotti Leicester ; Roger Soyer Talbot ; James Morris Cecil ; Margreta Elkins Anna

Bologna Teatro Comunale Chorus; Bologna Teatro Comunale Orchestra/Richard Bonynge

Decca 425 410-2DM2 (123 minutes : ADD)



Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera, tragedia lirica, in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Friedrich von Schiller's 1800 play Maria Stuart.

It received its premiere on December 30, 1835 at La Scala, Milan.

The subject is based on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. The king banned performances of the opera, and Donizetti responded by removing large segments of the score for use in a different work, Buondelmonte. However, Maria Malibran (a famous mezzo-soprano who often sang soprano parts) forced a premiere at La Scala and ignored the censoring revisions, but a ban by the city was enforced.

Realizing the impossibility of a run in Italy, a London premiere was planned, but Malibran's death at the age of 28 in 1836 cancelled the project. Except for several productions of the Buondelmonte version, the work was neglected until 1958 when a production in Bergamo, Donizetti's hometown, brought the original work into popularity. The premiere in England was held on March 1, 1966.

When forced to simplify part of the music for the original Elisabetta, Donizetti scribbled on the margin "But it's ugly!", and further on refused a change, writing "Do it, and may you live for a hundred years!"



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