Second Opera of Donizetti’s Tudor Trilogy

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts. The event will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at the University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall. For ticket information, visit uca.edu.ticketforce.com.