La Fille du Regiment
- Composer:
- Gaetano Donizetti. Conductor: Bruno Campanella
- Management:
- Royal Opera co-production with the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, New York
- Cast:
- Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Colin Lee, Alessandro Corbelli, Felicity Palmer, Donald Maxwell
- Director:
- Laurent Pelly (also costumes)
- Design:
- Chantal Thomas
- Lighting:
- Joel Adam
Production information can change over the run of the show.
It's been 40 years since Covent Garden presented Donizetti's light-hearted military comedy. Last time round it starred Joan Sutherland in the title role, with Luciano Pavarotti knocking out top C after top C to her side. This time it's an equivalently starry pairing, with the leading coloratura of the day, French soprano Natalie Dessay, enjoying her tomboy role as Marie, a young woman brought up by an entire regiment of soldiers, and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez effortlessly graceful and equally virtuosic as her adored Tonio...
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