Roberto Devereux - San Francisco Opera

Denounced as a traitor, the dashing earl Roberto Devereux has been summoned to the court of Elizabeth I to answer for his crimes. His very life is at stake. And the only way for him to escape the executioner’s axe is to appeal to the queen’s love. But will his own heart betray him? An earl’s secret romance becomes his undoing in Gaetano Donizetti’s royal drama.