Maria Stuarda
Tragedia lirica in Three Acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari
Filmed at the Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macerata, Italy, 3 August 2007

Elisabetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Polverelli
Maria Stuarda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maria Pia Piscitelli
Anna Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . Giovanna Lanza
Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roberto De Biasio
Talbot . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . Simone Alberghini
Cecil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . Mario Cassi
FORM – Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
Coro Lirico Marchigiano ‘V. Bellini’
Riccardo Frizza

Chorus master: Davide Crescenzi
Director, set and costume designer: Pier Luigi Pizzi
Lighting Designer: Sergio Rossi

Sung in Italian • Subtitles in Italian and English
Total Running Time: 122:14

• In Donizetti’s opera Maria Stuarda the rôles of the doomed queen and her cousin, Elizabeth I, have been taken by some of the greatest divas, from Malibran to Gruberova and Tosi to Baltsa, each revelling in the high drama of their tragically linked fates.

• “Contributing greatly to the success of the work, the young Maestro Riccardo Frizza revealed himself as a deep and sensitive interpreter of this score, managing to capture all the nuances of Donizetti’s music … Laura Polverelli portrayed with elegance and pride the character of Elizabeth, her furies, doubts and jealousies; Maria Pia Piscitelli was a wonderful Maria Stuarda, passionate, sorrowful, proud, dignified when sentenced to death, recalling her past sins yet conscious of her innocence” MusiCulturA