Maria Stuarda

Opera in tre atti

• Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
• Librettist: Giuseppe Bardari
• Source: Mary Stuart, drama by Johann Friedrich von Schiller
• First performance:
  • revised (as Buondelmonte): Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 18 October, 1834
  • original: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 30 December 1835
• Libretto
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Dramatis Personæ

Elisabetta [Elizabeth], Queen of England (mezzo-soprano)

Maria Stuarda [Mary Stuart], Queen of Scotland (soprano)

Anna Kennedy, Mary Stuart's nurse (contralto)

Roberto [Robert Devereux], Earl of Leicester (tenor)

Lord Guglielmo Cecil, Lord High Treasurer (baritone)

Giorgio Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (bass)

Setting:England, 16th Century.