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Mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on a virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVitar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I and Maurizio Benini conducts. CAST Maurizio Benini : Conductor Joyce DiDonato : Maria Stuarda Elza van den Heever : Elisabetta Francesco Meli : Leicester Joshua Hopkins : Cecil Matthew Rose : Talbot English subtitles, 1 Intermission