It captures all the pathos of patriarchy. Basically, I’m straight-up obsessed when it comes to Henry VIII and his many wives, so I loved this opera. I even watched that atrocious TV series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers from the mid-noughties. If it’s about the Tudors, I want to consume it t oday. I’ll devour any piece of art about her, from Philippa Gregory’s soapy page-turner The Other Boleyn Girl to the recent BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall. Now, everyone who knows me knows I’m an Anne Boleyn fan. That’s why it’s unsurprising the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Donizetti’s classic Anna Bolena is so powerful. It’s a story that lends itself easily to the drama and grandeur of opera.
The scorned queen played a pivotal part in the creation of a new religion, gave birth to Britain’s monarch, and was beheaded by her husband–all by age thirty-five. Few stories are more dramatic than the true tale of Anne Boleyn.
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