Name: La Fille du régiment
Start: 2010-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Hall

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Christina Raphaelle Haldane

Marie

Colette Lam

Tenor

John Zuckerman

Tonio

Chen Yong

Tan Tianle

Bass

Brian Montgomery

Sergeant Sulpice

Mezzo-soprano

Melody Sze

The Marquise of Berkenfield

Carol Lin

Albert Lim

Hortensius

Brenda Scofield

The Duchess of Crakentorp

Spoken

Nancy Loo

A notary

Stage director

Lo Kingman

Conductor

Liao Guomin

Lighting designer

Luo Wenji

Costume designer

Liu Songxin

Set designer

Wu Jiamin

Chorus master

Fu Runguang

Lio Kuokman

Musica Viva Singers

Italian

La Fille du régiment -  (The Daughter of the Regiment)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

City Hall

La Fille du régiment Donizetti

Public

The Daughter of the Regiment

Chinese

English

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Countertenor

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

With this Musica Viva production of The Daughter of the Regiment, I finally fulfill my wish to present to the Hong Kong audience the three great comedies of Gaetano Donizetti. My first production of The Elixir of Love and Don Pasquale, many years ago, also took place in the City Hall, up to now still the venue with the best acoustics in the city.

I believe that opera is musically most effective if sung in the language originally set by the composer. I also believe that comedies are theatrically most effective if interpreted in a language to which the audience can immediately respond. Donizetti originally composed this opera for the Opera Comique of Paris with pages of French dialogues. He later created an Italian version with long recitatives. I find the French version artistically more satisfying.

In order to generate more immediate response from our audience, I have chosen to exercise some degree of poetic licence by altering slightly the historical context, the geographical reference and the background of certain characters in order to make it natural and logical for the dialogues to be spoken in English. All this is done without changing a single note in the music.

By inventing a humorous pantomime in the Overture to substitute for a good deal of the dialogues, I have been able to speed up the action considerably. I hope you will enjoy it.

The Daughter of the Regiment by Donizetti, From (2010/2010), Directed by Lo Kingman,, Conductor Liao Guomin, Lio Kuokman, City Hall, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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