With the 96-year-old US-resident composer in attendance, the opening of Thea Musgrave’ s Mary, Queen of Scots was an event of ...

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

Genius doesn't always tally with equal opportunities, to paraphrase Doris Lessing. Opera houses have a duty to put on new ...

An ancient tree linked to Mary, Queen of Scots, which has been described as “one of the most important trees in Scotland”, ...

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...

A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been donated by the royal to the Curwen family of Workington in Cumbria in 1568 as a ...

One of Vance’s key claims for the decline of free speech in Europe left many UK observers dumbfounded. He rebuked the ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera, which they brought to London for a couple of performances at Sadler’s Wells in 1980. English National Opera ...

Mary’s troubled reign was certainly full of incident. Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, she made her way back to Scotland, where she had become queen in 1542 when just ...