This week, we return to the 1970s with a very special performance of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda featuring the duelling queens of Beverly Sills and Pauline Tinsley. (I was at this performance and have my program signed by the entire cast!)

Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda

New York City Opera
Charles Wendelken-Wilson, conductor
02 September 1972

In-house recording

Maria Stuarda – Beverly Sills
Elisabetta I – Pauline Tinsley
Roberto Leicester – Enrico di Giuseppe
Sir Giorgio Talbot – John Darrenkamp
Anna Kennedy – Lana Hirschl
Lord Guglielmo Cecil – Michael Devlin
Un araldo – Joseph Galiano

You may also enjoy Sills in Roberto Devereux. A live performance of her Anna Bolena will be posted in the near future, completing the Donizetti “Tudor Queens Trilogy.”

And, finally, a a reminder that the “Brass Menagerie” competition ends tonight at 9:00 PM ET. Hurry and get your guesses in!