• First time on Blu-ray!

• The recording was made at Venice's beautiful Teatro La Fenice.

• With his sharp and lively conducting, Fabrizio Maria Carminati puts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice entirely at the service of three exceptional singers, Sonia Ganassi ("an extraordinary performance," Opera Today) as Elisabetta, Fiorenza Cedolins ("colorful, nuanced, highly dramatic heroine," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) as Maria Stuarda, and José Bros as a passionate Leicester.

• "Maria Stuarda" is the most popular work in Donizetti's trilogy of bel canto operas on Tudor queens.

• "a standing ovation" (Opera Today)

• "extraordinary protagonists" (Il Gazzettino)

• "To conjure up […] hatred and jealousy, you don't need a stage setting, just two splendid primadonnas: Sonia Ganassi and Fiorenza Cedolins." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)