In Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary Stuart’s Scottish years become a searching study of sovereign authority, male rivalry, and the political conditions that turn public power into personal danger.
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By Justin Vickers
Was there ever a more complex—or more haunted—individual in all of the Scottish or English monarchies than Mary (1542–1587), the sole legitimate daughter of James V?
She succeeded her father when she was a mere six days old. Mary I of Scotland. Mary Stuart. The Queen of Scots.
Fiercely devoted to her Catholicism, she stood as a counterpoi…
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