This has not an obvious link with my arrival in Berlin on a sept morning. It is the opening scene of Maria Stuarda at Fenice, shot on Sun the 3rd. The next setting sort of puzzled me, I thought the stage-director must have toured the same places as me in Berlin, I was a bit shocked at that instant link I made. And I saw the morbid theme straight away. Death of Mary Stuart ,Queen of Scots announced at first start of Donizetti 's Maria Stuarda and death in Europe being immortalised by this monument.