The humorous opera of Donizetti La Fille du Régiment (The daughter of the regiment) returns in the transmission cycle "The Met: Live in HD" in the new cast. The Praha Cinema in Warsaw invites you to the broadcast on March 2, 2019 at 6.35 p.m.
Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks – including the show-stopping tenor aria Ah! Mes amis … Pour mon âme, with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. And in an exciting piece of casting, stage and screen icon Kathleen Turner makes her Met debut in the speaking role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Donizetti’s score is a deft combination of jaunty military tunes, brisk comic numbers, enormously graceful ensembles and vocal solos, and sparkling arias. Not many singers have the technical ability and theatrical presence to deliver the famous fireworks arias (notably the soprano’s Act I Chacun le sait and the tenor’s Act I Ah! Mes amis, with its notorious nine high Cs). Just as important as these, however, are the lyric beauty and pathos of the slower melodic gems (the soprano’s Il faut partir in Act I and the tenor’s Pour me rapprocher de Marie in Act II).
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