Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (2-CD) – Sara Blanch, John Osborn
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (2-CD) – Sara Blanch, John Osborn
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Artists: Sara Blanch, Adriana Bignagni Lesca, Paolo Bordogna, John Osborn, Cristina Bugatty, Haris Andrianos, Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Michele Spotti
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Dynamic
Release Date: June 17, 2022
An opéra-comique by an Italian composer? This was a rarity in its day, but after the “barely averted disaster” of its opening night, Donizetti’s La fille du régiment became a popular success, not least for the high Cs demanded from Tonio in the famous tenor aria “Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête!”
The story revolves around Marie, the canteen girl of the Regiment, whose lover Tonio joins the army to be near her just as she is claimed for marriage into nobility. This acclaimed Teatro Donizetti production was considered by turns “hilarious… tender and moving… [and] overwhelmingly brilliant” by bachtrack.com.
History
Gaetano Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
La Fille du Régiment (“The Daughter of the Regiment”) premiered at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1840, one of several works the Italian Donizetti wrote while living in the French capital. A comedy of manners about a young woman who is adopted as an orphan by a regiment of the French Army, its musical highlights include the tenor’s Act I aria “Ah, mes amis,” notorious for its nine high Cs.
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