Donizetti's Maria
Stuarda
Grange
Park Opera, June 7 - July 5, 2005
Production
photographs
by Alastair Muir, courtesy of Grange Park Opera.
Other
photographs courtesy of the Martin Healey Sweet Pea Group
Grange
Park, a one time derelict country house in Southern
England, has become an operatic festival venue increasingly
notable for its performances in the new theatre that has been
created in the old orangery, as well as its more obvious
social attractions.
This
year, one of the featured operas was Donizetti's Maria Stuarda,
the second production in Britain this year, the other being
that from English Touring
Opera.
The
cast includes:-
Maria
(Majella Cullagh)
Elizabeth
(Janis Kelly)
Leicester (Adrian
Dwyer)
Talbot
(Jonathan Best)
Cecil
(Quentin Hayes)
Anna
(Harriet Williams)
The director is Stephen Langridge, designer George Souglides and conductor Sergio La Stella
Elizabeth (Janis
Kelly)
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The
Act 2 confrontation between Elizabeth and Maria (Majella Cullagh)
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Mary's
Prayer (final scene)
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Queen
of dissent: Mary Stuart and the opera in her honour
by Carlo Coccia,
by Alexander Weatherson gives the background of the
opera and, in particular, its relationship to an earlier Mary
Stuart opera by Coccia.
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