Organization

Conductor

Evelino Pidò

Stage director

André Barbe

Renaud Doucet

Set designer

Costume designer

Chorus master

Andrea Secchi

Singer

Soprano

Caterina Sala

Marie

Mezzo-soprano

Manuela Custer

The Marquise of Berkenfield

Tenor

Pablo Martinez

Tonio

Bass

Roberto de Candia

Sergeant Sulpice

Giuliana Gianfaldoni

Spoken

Federico Vazzola

A notary

Andrea Antognetti

A peasant

Video designer

Guido Salsilli

Lighting designer

Guy Simard

John Osborn

Guillaume Andrieux

Hortensius

Arturo Brachetti

The Duchess of Crakentorp

Lorenzo Battagion

A corporal

Riccardo Mattiotto

Alejandro Escobar

Simone Alberghini

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Teatro Regio di Torino

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Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

Italian

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

Turin

Italy

Teatro Regio

La Fille du régiment Donizetti

Public

The Daughter of the Regiment

French

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This extract from La Fille du Régiment is one of the most famous tenor arias with its 9 high Cs in only 2 minutes.Here we are in Act I, the Marquise of Berke...

Maria Grazia Schiavo & John Osborn - Duetto di Marie & Tonio "Quoi, vous m´aimez" (G.Donizetti La Fille du Régiment)

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

Excerpt from program notes...
(...) In this production at La Fenice by Barbe & Doucet, maestro Stefano Ranzani leads the excellent house orchestra as the action comes to life in the hands of a stellar vocal cast, including the magnificent Maria Grazia Schiavo and John Osborn as Marie and Tonio.

Directed by: Stéphane Vérité
Venue: Teatro La Fenice (Venice, Italy)
Broadcast date: Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 8:00 PM

Strong women are a constant in Donizetti's production. Among all, Marie, protagonist of the Fille du régiment , is the sunniest and at the same time the least feminine: she was raised by a regiment of the Napoleonic army , she has learned to love her homeland and… to swear like a soldier. For her the girl changes everything when she, arrived in the mountains of the Tyrol, she discovers that she is the daughter of a marquise ; her aristocratic life, however, darkens her: she will rediscover the smile and love of her beloved Tonio with the help of her many military "dads".

Composed in Paris in 1840, this is Donizetti's first and most successful French opera . Having put aside all snobbery, the transalpines immediately fell in love with it and for years adopted the Salut à la France choir as their own unofficial anthem, as an alternative to the Marseillaise. To make the work irresistible is a succession of brilliant marches , witty episodes and vocal numbers with astounding virtuosity , like the aria by Tonio Ah! Mes amis with its nine C's of chest . We will hear them from the impeccable voice of the great American tenor John Osborn , flanked by Giuliana Gianfaldoni 's Marieand a cast of repertoire specialists. This opera, as entertaining as it is demanding, is directed by Evelino Pidò , a very welcome return for the ambassador of romantic opera and bel canto in the world. The staging is completely new: an imaginative direction that mixes real and surreal elements with humor, as is typical of the celebrated productions of the duo Barbe & Doucet .

English

Le donne forti sono una costante nella produzione di Donizetti. Tra tutte, Marie, protagonista della Fille du régiment, è la più solare e insieme la meno femminile: allevata da un reggimento dell’esercito napoleonico, ha imparato ad amare la patria e… a imprecare come un soldato. Per la ragazza tutto cambia quando, giunta tra le montagne del Tirolo, scopre di essere la figlia di una marchesa; la vita aristocratica, però, la incupisce: ritroverà il sorriso e l’amore del suo adorato Tonio con l’aiuto dei suoi tanti “papà” militari.

Composta a Parigi nel 1840, questa è la prima e più fortunata opera francese di Donizetti. Messo da parte ogni snobismo, i transalpini se ne innamorarono subito e per anni adottarono il coro Salut à la France come proprio inno non ufficiale, in alternativa alla Marsigliese. A rendere il lavoro irresistibile è una successione di marce brillanti, episodi spiritosi e numeri vocali dal virtuosismo sbalorditivo, come l’aria di Tonio Ah! Mes amis con i suoi nove do di petto. Li ascolteremo dalla voce impeccabile del grande tenore americano John Osborn, affiancato dalla Marie di Giuliana Gianfaldoni e da un cast di specialisti del repertorio. Quest’opera, divertente quanto impegnativa, è diretta da Evelino Pidò, un graditissimo ritorno per l’ambasciatore dell’opera romantica e del belcanto nel mondo. Tutto nuovo l’allestimento: una regia immaginifica che mescola con umorismo elementi reali e surreali, com’è tipico delle celebrate produzioni del duo Barbe & Doucet.

italiano

The Daughter of the Regiment by Donizetti, From (2023/2023), Directed by André Barbe, Renaud Doucet,, Conductor Evelino Pidò, Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy

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