Diana Damrau / Antonio Pappano - Tudor Queens Condition:New disappointed at not being appointed

disappointed at not being appointed court composer to Elizabeth I

Howard Fergusson's Three Sketches were composed intermittently over a period of twenty years

Built around three major works (Widor's Suite

secure in the wealth of experience acquired during his European trips

as are the expressionist tensions of the second creative phase

Diana Damrau / Antonio Pappano - Tudor Queens Condition:New disappointed at not being appointedSoprano Diana Damrau assumes the crowns of three different Tudor queens, the central characters in operas by Donizetti: Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena), Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda), and Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux). With Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra and Chorus of Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, she performs the substantial and climactic final scene of each work. When Damrau sang Maria Stuarda at the Zurich Opera, the Neue Zrcher