A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been ...

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

Written six hours before she was led to her death, the last letter penned by Mary Queen of Scots is now to leave the building. The letter was penned by the doomed monarch at Fortheringhay Castle ...

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

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

The 96-year-old composer received a heartfelt standing ovation for her traditional yet bracingly modern 1977 work – and ...

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

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

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 ...