With the 96-year-old US-resident composer in attendance, the opening of Thea Musgrave’ s Mary, Queen of Scots was an event of ...

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 just ...

Mary, Queen of Scots has not – until now – been staged in London. Basing her own libretto on Amalia Elguera’s play Moray, Musgrave focuses on Mary’s ill-fated confrontations with what ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera ... and John Findon as a fine, burly Earl of Bothwell, who is another turncoat, coming to defend Mary but ...

The opera focuses on Mary’s relationships with three men: her half-brother James, Earl of Moray, her husband Lord Darnley and her advisor, the Earl of Bothwell. Through the twists and turns of the men ...

Soprano Heidi Stober will bring Musgrave’s radiant melodies to life on stage as Queen Mary. She will be joined by two former ENO Harewood Artists Alex Otterburn as James Stewart, Earl of Moray and ...

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

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