The focal point of Maria Stuarda, Gaetano Donizetti’s opera premiered at la Scala, Milan, in 1835, is the exchange between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots at a contrived meeting on the purlieu of Fotheringhay Castle, Norfolk.
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Many beautiful cities have tried and failed to tame the rowdy crowds.
Long, narrative melodies start, move up, curl back for a few notes, rise again, turn in on themselves, flowing like rivers of beautiful sound to their long conclusion.
“Hub” is a well-established English word, though it wasn’t used by Shakespeare, and wasn’t included by Dr Johnson in his great Dictionary of 1755.
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