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Donizetti - La fille du Regiment

14/06/2012

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Donizetti's opera La fille du Regiment performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Penny Gore introduces Donizetti's opera La fille du Regiment in a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Plus the BBC SSO in Lyadov: 8 Russian Folksongs.

This week's Thursday Opera Matinee is a performance of Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The heroine of Donizetti's comedy is Marie, the 'daughter' or mascot of the 21st Regiment. She's in love with a hunky peasant called Tonio, but can only marry a soldier from the 21st. Natalie Dessay sings Marie, and Juan Diego Florez supplies the famous top Cs as Tonio. And there's a cameo for Dawn French in the hilarious spoken role of the Duchess of Crackentorp

Plus today's Russian music is from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: a performance of Lyadov's 8 Russian Folksongs.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm 
Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment 
Marie ..... Natalie Dessay (soprano), 
Tonio ..... Juan Diego Florez (tenor), 
La Marquise ..... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), 
Sulpice Pingot ..... Alessandro Corbelli (baritone), 
Hortensius ..... Donald Maxwell (baritone), 
A Corporal ..... Bryan Secombe (bass), 
Paesan ..... Luke Price (tenor),
La Duchesse de Crackentorp ..... Dawn French,
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra 
Bruno Campanella (conductor)

4.10pm
Lyadov: 8 Russian Folksongs 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Blunier (conductor).

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