Sat. 1 pm ET- La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard, it found favor with its Parisian audiences thanks to its comedic, yet dramatic, libretto and its beautifully written music that is both melodious and extremely difficult to sing. The opera, due to its patriotic content, was typically performed in France on Bastille Day. 03/02/2019
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La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.[Wikipedia]
La fille du régiment premiered on February 11, 1840, in the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse, and it wasn’t a performance to write home about. Fraught with musical errors and out-of-tune singing, the opera was harshly criticized by notable romantic period composer Hector Berlioz (read the synopsis of Berlioz’ opera, Les Troyens) less than a week later. (In a interview given by Berlioz some time later, he revealed that one couldn’t find a theater in Paris that wasn’t performing one of Donizetti’s operas. In fact, he was upset that opera houses of Paris were being referred to as opera houses of Donizetti.) Regardless of its lamentable start, La fille du régiment found favor with its Parisian audiences thanks to its comedic, yet dramatic, libretto and its beautifully written music that is both melodious and extremely difficult to sing. The opera, due to its patriotic content, was typically performed in France on Bastille Day.[By Thought Co]
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