La Fille du régiment

La fille du régiment - Laurent Pelly

• Conductor

  Evelino Pidò; Ching-Lien Wu

• Music

  Gaetano Donizetti

• Libretto

  Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges

• Libretto

  Jean-François Bayard

• Director and costume design

  Laurent Pelly

• New dialogs

  Agathe Mélinand

• Set design

  Chantal Thomas

• Lighting design

  Joël Adam

• Choreography

  Laura Scozzi

In 1838, Gaetano Donizetti moved to Paris after a career already rich in works such as Lucia di Lammermoor, when he received a commission from the Opéra-Comique. La Fille du régiment, his first work written directly in French, premiered there two years later and gave the composer the opportunity to explore a broad range of musical styles, from the boisterous overture to bravura arias such as “Ah! mes amis” and poignant, languorous romances.

Foreshadowing Offenbach, this military opera about a vivandière, Marie, adopted at birth by a French regiment, doubles as a sentimental fable and a comic confrontation between two opposing worlds, that of the military encampment and that of the aristocracy.

Laurent Pelly takes on this pinnacle of bel canto with his characteristic verve. Setting the work during the 1914 war rather than the Napoleonic Wars and adapting the dialogue, the director modernises the piece without sacrificing a single ounce of its brio.  

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
A production Metropolitan Opera, New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, Staatsoper, Vienna

La Fille du régiment

La fille du régiment - Laurent Pelly

• Marie

  Julie Fuchs

• Tonio

  Lawrence Brownlee

• Sulpice

  Lionel Lhote

• The Marchioness of Berkenfield

  Susan Graham

• Hortensius

  Florent Mbia

• The Duchess of Crakentorp

  Felicity Lott

• A peasant

  Cyrille Lovighi

• The Corporal

  Mikhail Silantev