Odyssey Opera continues its Tudor-inspired season with the fully-staged production of Pacini’s “Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra.”

The opera was inspired by a play by Victor Hugo and has largely been overlooked throughout history. Gil Rose conducts the Bel Canto masterwork with Amy Shoremount-Obra as Queen Mary and rising star Alisa Jordheim as Clotilde Talbot.

In a press release, Odyssey Opera noted, “Pacini is one of the missing links in Italian opera of the first part of the 19^th century. He produced more than 70 operas and yet has faded into oblivion. Pacini wrote happily within the formal conventions of Italian opera in his time; perhaps, this is why he remains largely in the shadows, especially of his colleagues: Verdi, Bellini and Donizetti.”

This is the second opera in the Tudor series the company has planned for this season. The season opened with the concert performance of Camille Saint-Saëns “Henry VIII” and continues with Arnold Rosner’s “The Chronicle of Nine,” Rossini’s “Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra,” Britten’s “Gloriana” and  Edward German’s “Merrie England.”