Some absolute howlers in the production department do their utmost to derail the affair

Welsh National Opera's Tudor trilogy could test the stamina of cast and audience alike

WNO’s Maria Stuarda fails to communicate spirit of Tudor England

3 Tudor queens, each with her own unhappy ending

Musically and vocally there’s some pleasure to be had

16th-century England meets 19th-century Europe in this misguided production of Donizetti's Tudor opera

WNO production takes too many liberties with the work

Second episode in WNO's Donizetti Tudor cycle has musical style but is coarsely directed

Even this terrible staging of Donizetti's opera failed to detract from Judith Howard's superb singing