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From: The Bibliographer< >
Subject: Re: Fw: William Wallace
Date: 1 Sep 1999 13:06:14 -0400


In article <>,
John Steele Gordon <> wrote:
> wrote:
>> In a message dated 9/1/1999 1:53:36 AM, writes:
>> << I don't think I have missed much in not seeing the movie,
>> reading critiques exposing the wrong premises was enough. I believe there
>> was a play, or a movie, in which Elizabeth I meets Mary, Queen of Scots,
>> start suspending believe---great drama?
>It was an opera, Maria Stuarda, by Donizetti. It's a great scene--what
>grand opera is all about--but unfortunately it has vocal requirements
>that are mighty hard to come by and it is very rarely performed. I was
>very, very lucky to see it in the 1960's when the incomparable Beverly
>Sills sang Elizabeth. It nearly brought down the house and it was utter
>pandemonium for five minutes as 3000 people at the New York State
>Theater went wild.

And, before that, it is a play by (I believe) Schiller.

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