Maria Stuarda from the Salzburg Festival arrives on DVD and Blu-ray: C Major, September 2026

Lisette's Maria Stuarda from the Salzburg Festival is coming home to the shelf. Ulrich Rasche's staging — in which Lisette sings the title role of Donizetti's doomed Queen of Scots — will be released on DVD and Blu-ray by C Major Entertainment on September 4, 2026.

Captured live at the 2025 Salzburg Festival, the release preserves Rasche's monumental production, built on slowly rotating platforms, projected imagery, and an ensemble of dancers — a staging that turns rhythm, movement, and physical presence into the drama's expressive forces. Antonello Manacorda conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor.

Cast

• Lisette Oropesa — Maria Stuarda
• Kate Lindsey — Elisabetta
• Bekhzod Davronov — Roberto, Earl of Leicester
• Aleksei Kulagin — Giorgio Talbot
• Thomas Lehman — Lord Guglielmo Cecil
• Nino Gotoshia — Anna Kennedy

Conductor: Antonello Manacorda · Stage director: Ulrich Rasche · Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker

The recording runs 138 minutes with subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese, and arrives as a 2-disc DVD (773008) and Blu-ray (773104). Full details at C Major Entertainment; pre-order now at Presto Music, with wider distribution to follow on release day.

Watch the official release announcement from C Major Entertainment on YouTube.

This release documents the production Lisette performed at the 2025 Salzburg Festival, and arrives ahead of her Maria Stuarda at the Metropolitan Opera this November — a role that has become one of the signatures of her bel canto repertoire.