Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

Genius doesn't always tally with equal opportunities, to paraphrase Doris Lessing. Opera houses have a duty to put on new ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Her father died just a week after her birth. A fervent Roman Catholic and a claimant to the English Crown ...

Mary, Queen of Scots at London Coliseum review: a long overdue standing ovation - 4/5 Thea Musgrave’s powerful and imaginatively scored opera finally gets its London staging ...

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in England by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. The Queen of ...

The cup is on display at the Helena Thompson Museum A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been donated by the royal to ...

Description of events leading up to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Description of events leading up to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. The relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and ...

Mary’s troubled reign was certainly full of incident. Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, she made her way back to Scotland, where she had become queen in 1542 when ...