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 ...

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Donizetti was a truly prolific opera composer, he could turn out as many as three or four a year and was said to have sketched and written the last act of La favorita in a few hours. Imagine composing ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — When Javier Camarena explodes with joy singing nine high C’s in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment (Daughter of the Regiment),” there’s a good chance the Metropolitan Opera audience ...

The title-role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the pinnacles of the bel canto repertoire. It’s a role that made Joan Sutherland’s career when she sang it at Covent Garden in 1959 and it ...