Maria Stuarda, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: The second of Welsh National Opera's Tudor Trilogy of Donizetti historical operas takes to the stage in the shape of Maria Stuarda - his 1835 take on the story of the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her fatal conflict with her cousin, Elizabeth I. The centrepiece of the opera is a famous scene in which the two queens come face to face for a vocal battle royal - though in …