DVD + Blu-Ray:
Maria Stuarda

Salzburg Festival presents Donizetti's Maria Stuarda with a shining duo in the main roles, Lisette Oropesa as Maria and Kate Lindsey as Elisabetta.

With a sublime cast and the revolutionary staging by Ulrich Rasche, this Salzburg Festival production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda transforms a bel canto masterpiece into an evening of theatre. The conflict between Maria and Elisabetta becomes tangible through contrasting costumes, a constantly shifting space of rotating platforms and projected images.

Lisette Oropesa’s Maria showcases “a truly wonderful display of vocal intelligence, human warmth and a completely effortless, natural tone” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), while Kate Lindsey’s Elisabetta conveys the fury and despair of the English monarch with striking intensity. Under the baton of Antonello Manacorda and with the outstanding contribution of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, this production conquers through rhythm, movement and physical presence as expressive forces.

“Lisette Oropesa imbues all of this with vocal mastery and emotion. Beyond pure virtuosity she shapes the inner workings of the character into operatic drama” (Der Standard)

Genre Opera
Composer Gaeta
Soloist Kate Lindsey, Lisette Oropesa, Bekhzod Davronov, Aleksei Kulagin, Thomas Lehman, Nino Gotoshia, Dancers of SEAD, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Orchestra / Band Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor Antonello Manacorda
Stage Director Ulrich Rasche
Duration 138 mins
Production Company A production of ORF, NHK and UNITEL in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker and Salzburg Festival