August 16th 2025, 7:00 pm

Salzburg Festival

Antonello Manacorda

Gaetano Donizetti Maria Stuarda
Tragedia lirica in two acts (1835)
Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari
after Friedrich Schiller’s tragedy Maria Stuart
in the Italian translation by Andrea Maffei

New production

Antonello Manacorda Conductor
Ulrich Rasche Director and Sets
Sara Schwartz Costumes
Florian Hetz Video
Marco Giusti Lighting
Paul Blackman Choreography
Yvonne Gebauer Dramaturgy
Dennis Krauß Assistant Director

Kate Lindsey Elisabetta
Lisette Oropesa Maria Stuarda
Bekhzod Davronov Roberto, Count of Leicester
Aleksei Kulagin Giorgio Talbot
Thomas Lehman Lord Guglielmo Cecil

Dancers from
SEAD — Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

Alan Woodbridge Chorus Master
Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna Philharmonic

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