Opera News, August 1st, 2005
DONIZETTI: Mary Stuart * Baker, Plowright, Bostock; Rendall, Tomlinson, Opie; Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera, Mackerras. Kultur DVD D2808, 138 mins., 4:3 picture format, subtitled
For her farewell to opera in 1982, Janet Baker repeated her 1973 English-language Mary Stuart with English National Opera. The choice was less surprising in the 1980s than in the more competitive '70s, when Donizetti's royals included the extraordinary Sutherland, Sills and Caballé, and a mezzo with a fairly thin opera résumé seemed an unlikely contender in a star soprano role.
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