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DESCRIPTION:Sep 20 - Oct 4\, 2026\nIn 1978\, memories were fresh of Beverly
  Sills as Donizetti’s imprisoned Mary\, Queen of Scots\, awaiting decapi
 tation by fiat of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I. It was just the moment for
  City Opera\, where she had sung the part a half dozen years before\, to m
 ount a contemporary prequel by the Scottish composer Thea Musgrave! In The
  New York Times\, Harold C. Schonberg judged the out-of-town premiere in N
 orfolk\, Virginia\, “thoroughly professional work\, better than most con
 temporary operas.” He correctly forecast a big career for Ashley Putnam\
 , who sang Mary. The duel between Jake Gardner’s Moray and Barry Busse
 ’s Bothwell impressed him as the best “since Basil Rathbone and Errol 
 Flynn had it out in Robin Hood\,” leaving any swordplay ever seen at the
  Met in the dust. On the opposite side of the ledger\, Schonberg concluded
  that Musgrave possessed no “distinguished lyric gift\,” and that the 
 opera was a failure. But maybe Musgrave’s time was yet to come? Here\, t
 o make that case\, are Heidi Stober as Mary\, Thomas Mole as Moray\, the h
 alf-brother who turned against her\, and Thomas Kinch as Bothwell\, her il
 l-fated third husband. Clelia Cafiero conducts the production\, designed a
 nd directed by Stewart Laing.
LOCATION:San Francisco Opera\, 301 Van Ness Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94102\
 , USA
SUMMARY:Mary\, Queen of Scots\, by Thea Musgrave
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 y-thea-musgrave
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