The noble, famous Queen who lost her head of late ...
. . .resurrected in music at the request of the under-20s and introduced by Christopher Hogwood.
Mary Queen of Scots supplies the text for Gedichte der Konigin Maria Stuart (Schumann), her fictitious encounter with Queen Elizabeth as presented by Donizetti in Act II of Maria Stuarda , and her death as commemorated by William Byrd and Carissimi's Lamento e morte di Maria Stuarda : records