Donizetti & Schiller: Maria Stuarda by Petr Weigl (Opera Film 1988 - ENG SUB)

Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a 1988 Opera Film directed by Petr Weigl, Screenplay by Giuseppe Bardari and Friedrich Schiller. Singing voice of Joan Sutherland as Maria Stuarda and Luciano Pavarotti as Leicester. This is an abridged version which combines the Donizetti opera and the Schiller play.

LANGUAGE
Dialogues: German
Singing: Italian
Translation: English subtitles

Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play Maria Stuart. The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including Anna Bolena (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the "Three Donizetti Queens". The story is loosely based on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Schiller had invented the confrontation of the two Queens, who in fact never met.

Mary Stuart (German: Maria Stuart) is a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800.

Cast & Characters:
ELIZABETH I - Kamila Magálová (HUGUETTE TOURANGEAU ♫)
MARIA STEWART - Magdalena Vasaryová (JOAN SUTHERLAND ♫)
EARL OF LEICESTER - Milan Kňažko (LUCIANO PAVAROTTI ♫)
GEORGE TALBOT - Přemysl Kočí (ROGER SAWYER ♫)
WILLIAM CECIL - Jan Přeučil (JAMES MORRIS ♫)
ANNA KENNEDY - Jiřina Jirásková (MARGARET ELKINS ♫)
BURLEIGH - Jan Preucil (JAMES MORRIS ♫)

CHORUS and ORCHESTRA of the Bologna Opera House
CONDUCTOR Richard Bonynge
DIRECTOR Petr Weigl