La Fille du Régiment | Opera review

Royal Opera House, LondonLaurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's light comedy returns to Covent Garden, and once again carries all before it. The staging has its 'Allo 'Allo! moments – not inappropriately for a piece featuring a troupe of soft-hearted French comic-opera soldiers who have brought up an abandoned child as their regimental daughter, and watch her rise to the aristocratic milieu of her origins. But the cast of stars and stalwarts knows exactly what to do with their material.Stal...

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