The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

His next three operas are more or less forgotten, but an abridged recording of Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia was issued by Opera Rara in 2006.

* Maria Stuarda regina di Scozia ( 29 May 1821, Teatro Comunale, Bologna )

With the success of Lucia di Lammermoor in September 1835, Donizetti moved on to stagings of Maria Stuarda, the first under that name at La Scala in late 1835.

* 1835: Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti

* Maria Stuarda

This in turn formed the basis for Maria Stuarda, an opera by Donizetti, in 1834.

* Lord Guglielmo Cecil, Maria Stuarda

* Maria Stuarda ( 1835 ), a tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti based on the play by Schiller

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* Donizetti used the tune in his opera Maria Stuarda, at Act 3, Scene VIII, " Deh!

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.

Although Giuseppe Bardari ( 1817 – 1861 ), was the librettist for Maria Stuarda, he was not Donizetti's first choice because, at that point, he was only 17 years old, and was a student with no experience.

The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the " Three Donizetti Queens ".

Finally, in its original form as Maria Stuarda, the opera was first given on 30 December 1835 at La Scala, Milan.

Except for several productions of the Buondelmonte version and a few of Maria Stuarda in Oporto and Lisbon as well as Naples in 1865, the work was neglected until 1958 when a production in Bergamo, Donizetti's hometown, brought the original work into popularity.

Since January 2009, 92 performances of 19 productions worldwide have been or will be presented, attesting to the continued popularity of Maria Stuarda.

It is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including Roberto Devereux ( named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England ), Maria Stuarda ( named for Mary, Queen of Scots ) and Il castello di Kenilworth.

The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the " Three Donizetti Queens.

It is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history and include Anna Bolena ( named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn ), Maria Stuarda ( named for Mary, Queen of Scots ) and Il castello di Kenilworth.

The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux are often referred to as the " Three Donizetti Queens.

In Polinice, the characters of the rival brothers are beautifully contrasted ; in Maria Stuarda, that unfortunate queen is represented unsuspicious, impatient of contradiction and violent in her attachments.

la: Maria Andegavensis ( regina Hungariae )

la: Maria II ( regina Angliae )

la: Maria I ( regina Angliae )

Pacini's successes during this time period include La fidanzata corsa ( Naples, 1842 ), Maria, regina d ' Inghilterra ( Palermo, 1843 ), Medea ( Palermo, 1843 with several later revisions, the last of which was in Naples in 1853 ), Lorenzino de ' Medici ( Venice, 1845 ), Bondelmonte ( Florence, 1845 ), Stella di Napoli ( Naples, 1845 ) and La regina di Cipro ( Turin, 1846 ).

A setting of the Salve regina is his only published work of sacred music, though he did write more sacred works, such as Requiems for Franz I and Maria Theresa, and a Te Deum celebrating the birth of Francis II.

la: Maria ( regina Hierosolymitana )

it: Maria del Portogallo, regina di Castiglia

* Antonio Vivaldi, Arsilda, regina di Ponto ( 3 CD ), Federico Maria Sardelli, conductor, WDR, August 2001 / CPO, October 2004

Empress Maria Theresa commissioned another opera after this performance, Argine, regina di Granata, which was also performed ( although privately ).

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* Infanta Beatríz Isabela Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladisláa of Spain ( 1909 – 2002 ), who married Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi.

Monument to Canova in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, designed by Canova as a mausoleum for the painter Titian

In the interval he enjoyed the patronage of Ferdinando de ' Medici, for whose private theatre near Florence he composed operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his maestro di cappella, and procured him a similar post at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1703.

* Santa Maria di Montesanto, Naples, for his tomb

** Maria Crocifissa di Rosa

The following year he was commissioned a fresco of the Universal Judgement for the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, completed by Albertinelli and Giuliano Bugiardini when Baccio became a Dominican friar on July 26, 1500.

Bianca Maria Visconti in a portrait by Bonifacio Bembo, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

* S. Maria del Popolo ( Camera di Commercio )

He studied music as a puer ( boy chorister ) at San Luigi dei Francesi, under the maestro di capella Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino.

** Annibale Maria di Francia

The small Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle in Cividale del Friuli is probably one of the oldest preserved pieces of Lombard architecture, as Cividale was the first Lombard city in Italy.

* Maria di Rohan, by Donizetti-Gondi

it: Maria di Betania

In Rome, Michelangelo lived near the church of Santa Maria di Loreto.

The major Roman projects are St. Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Sforza Chapel ( Capella Sforza ) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Such was the violence and bloodshed that the two prefects of the city were called in to restore order, and after a first setback, when they were driven to the suburbs and a massacre of 137 was perpetrated in the basilica of Sicininus ( the modern Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ), the prefects banished Ursinus to Gaul.

He also immediately commissioned a representative tomb from the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger to be erected in the Sistine Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

Statue of Pope Clement VIII in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

Elected on 5 July 1294, he was crowned at Santa Maria di Collemaggio in the city of Aquila in the Abruzzo on 29 August, taking the name of Celestine V.

Shortly after assuming office, Celestine issued a papal bull granting a rare plenary indulgence to all pilgrims visiting Santa Maria di Collemaggio through its holy door on the anniversary of his papal coronation.

He was buried at Ferentino, but his body was subsequently removed to the Basilica Santa Maria di Collemaggio in Aquila.

While inspecting the earthquake damage during a 28 April 2009 visit to the Aquila, Pope Benedict XVI visited Celestine's remains in the badly damaged Santa Maria di Collemaggio and left the woolen pallium he wore during his papal inauguration in April 2005 on his glass casket as a gift.

The Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere was a titulus of which Callixtus was the patron.