For her encore after a rare Metropolitan Opera recital, the sublime Diana Damrau returns, this time in full regalia as Donizetti’s Mary, Queen of Scots, hapless prisoner of her political rival Good Queen Bess (Jamie Barton). Sparks fly when the ladies meet at last. “Vil bastarda!,” Mary calls Elizabeth (wait for it), sealing her own doom. —M.G.
The Arts Intel Report
Maria Stuarda, by Gaetano Donizetti
When
Apr 19 – May 9, 2020