Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 6 The Three Queens

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 16 Sondra Radvanovsky as Queen Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux in the Metropolitan Opera production, 2015|16 season. Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart, and Queen Elizabeth I are three of the most celebrated women in English and Scottish history. On the operatic stage they come to life in music that blazes with drama. Donizetti’s “Three Queens” – Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux – stand among the greatest works of opera’s most prolific composer, and each of the final scenes offers one of the most formidable challenges ever created for a soprano. Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera