Opera

Maria Stuarda

Beth enjoyed another show at the Fringe Festival; a production of Maria Stuarda. Most appropriate to be watching that show here in Scotland since it is loosely based on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Although they never met in real live, they sure do in this 1835 production; the two famous queens are locked in dangerous power play.

Maria, the White Queen, turns the heads of Leicester and Talbot, two of Elizabeth’s most trusted courtiers. Elizabeth, the Red Queen, blinded by jealousy and suspicious of the White Queen’s motives, is enticed by her henchman, Lord Cecil, to condemn her cousin, a reigning monarch, to death.

Great story. Love, hate, deceit, betrayal, scandal, complicity, and death. Pretty good show, not the Met (as pictured); more like community theater. Mike stayed at the flat to work on Kiwanis business.