"What was the fate of Mary Queen of Scots in Donizetti's opera ""Maria Stuarda""?"
Mary, Queen of Scots a half years in custody, Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586. She was beheaded the following year at Fotheringhay Castle. Mary was born on 8 December 1542 at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, to King James V and his French second wife, Mary of Guise. She was said to have been born prematurely and was the only legitimate child of James to survive him. She was the great-niece of King Henry VIII of England, as her paternal grandmother, Margaret Tudor, was Henry VIII's sister. On 14 December, six days after her birth, she became Queen of Scotland
Maria Stuarda Maria Stuarda Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera ("tragedia lirica"), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play "Maria Stuart". The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including "Anna Bolena" (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), "Roberto Devereux" (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and "Il castello di Kenilworth". The lead female characters of the operas "Anna Bolena", "Maria Stuarda", and "Roberto Devereux" are