On January 29, the Metropolitan Opera presents a free audio stream of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. Riccardo Frizza conducts Sondra Radvanovsky as Mary, Queen of Scots in his seventh appearance at the Met. The production features Elza van den Heever as Elisabetta, Celso Albelo as Leicester, Patrick Carfizzi as Cecil, and Kwangchul Youn as Talbot.
The radio broadcast begins at 7:25 p.m. EST and is available on the Met’s website.
Following the premiere of Stéphane Braunschweig’s production of Norma at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Riccardo Frizza travels to New York for Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda.
Opening January 29, Maria Stuarda features Sondra Radvanovsky as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, Elza van den Heever as Elisabetta, Celso Albelo as Leicester, Patrick Carfizzi and David Pershall alternating the role of Cecil, and Kwangchul Youn as Talbot.