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10/03/2016

Thea Musgrave - Mary, Queen of Scots

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Katie Derham presents a performance of Thea Musgrave's opera Mary, Queen of Scots.

Katie Derham presents a performance of Thea Musgrave's opera Mary, Queen of Scots. Starring soprano Ashley Putnam, with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Virginia Opera Association.

In the week celebrating International Women's Day, Afternoon on 3's Thursday Opera Matinee is Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots. In Musgrave's opera of 1977, Mary, Catholic Queen of Scotland and widowed Queen of France, has been invited by the Protestant Lords to return and assume the Scottish crown. The opera concentrates on her relationships with her half-brother, her husband and the Earl of Bothwell, while she tries to gain the allegiance of Lords of the Council and the people in order to win the crown.

Presented by Katie Derham.

2pm Thea Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots ..... Ashley Putnam (soprano)
James Stewart, Earl of Moray ..... Jake Gardner (baritone)
Henry, Lord Darnley ..... Jon Garrison (tenor)
James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell ..... Barry Busse (tenor)
David Riccio ..... Kenneth Bell (bass-baritone)
Lord Gordon ..... Francesco Sorianello (bass)
Cardinal Beaton ..... Carlos Serrano (baritone)
Earl of Morton ..... Robert Randolph (baritone)
Earl of Ruthven ..... Pietro Pozzo (tenor)
Mary Seton ..... Gloria Capone (soprano)
Mary Beaton ..... Nancy Boling (soprano)
Mary Livingstone ..... Ann Scholten (mezzo-soprano)
Mary Fleming ..... Pamela Scott (mezzo-soprano)

The Chorus of the Virginia Opera Association
The Orchestra of the Virginia Opera Association
Peter Mark (conductor).

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