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  • Gaetano Donizetti, La Fille du Régiment
    • I.1 Overture
    • Act 1
    • Act 2

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opera Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment Barbe & Doucet (stage direction), Stefano Ranzani (conductor) — With Maria Grazia Schiavo (Marie), Natasha Petrinsky (Marquise de Berkenfield), John Osborn (Tonio)...

Barbe & Doucet (stage direction), Stefano Ranzani (conductor) — With Maria Grazia Schiavo (Marie), Natasha Petrinsky (Marquise de Berkenfield), John Osborn (Tonio)...

Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment Barbe & Doucet (stage direction), Stefano Ranzani (conductor) — With Maria Grazia Schiavo (Marie), Natasha Petrinsky (Marquise de Berkenfield), John Osborn (Tonio)...

About

In 1838, after his opera Poliuto was censored in Italy, a spurned Donizetti left his homeland and came to Paris. It was there that he wrote his first true French opera and one of his greatest successes: La Fille du Régiment, a sparkling melodrama that traces the story of Marie, the vivandière (canteen girl) of a regiment who travels and works with her troops. Tonio, enamored of Marie, enlists in the ranks in order to impress her, but she is revealed to be the long-lost daughter of the Marquise of Berkfenfield, who brings Marie to her castle and be educated and married to a man befitting her station. Marie, however, remains faithful to the soldiers…

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Cast

  • Barbe & Doucet | Staging, sets, and costumes
  • Guy Simard | Lighting designer
  • Guido Salsilli | Video designer
  • Maria Grazia Schiavo | Marie
  • Natasha Petrinsky | Marquise de Berkenfield
  • Marisa Laurito | Duchesse Krakenthorp
  • John Osborn | Tonio
  • Armando Noguera | Sulpice
  • Guillaume Andrieux | Hortensius
  • Matteo Ferrara | Un caporal
  • Federico Vazzola | Un notaire
  • Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice | Orchestra, Choir
  • Alfonso Caiani | Chorus Master
  • Stefano Ranzani | Conductor

Program

  • Gaetano Donizetti, La Fille du Régiment
    • I.1 Overture
    • Act 1
    • Act 2

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Stéphane Vérité
  • Venue: Teatro La Fenice (Venice, Italy)
  • Production date: 2022
  • Duration: 2 h 19 min
  • Production: © Oxymore
  • Available version(s): FR
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