La Fille du Régiment – review

Royal Opera House, LondonLaurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's lightweight comedy was originally built around the extraordinary talents of Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Now that they've moved on, some of the glamour they cast over the rest of the show seems to have gone, too. The dialogue drags. Routines that were formerly spick and span look cheesy, so eager to please that they register as slightly desperate. And then there's Ann Widdecombe's comic turn in the non-singing role of t...

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