The Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a broadcast chosen by our listeners: Donizetti’s comedy La Fille du Régiment, The Daughter of the Regiment.
This 1973 performance features a sensational pair of superstars: soprano Joan Sutherland sang the title role of Marie, a girl raised by a regiment of soldiers, and tenor Luciano Pavarotti was Tonio, a village boy who enlists just to win her hand.
The cast also included Regina Resnick as the Marquise of Berkenfield and Fernando Corena as Sergeant Sulpice.
Richard Bonynge conducted a score that’s hilarious and heartfelt, with vocal fireworks that earned Pavarotti the moniker “King of the high Cs.”
La Fille du Régiment, a Listeners’ Choice broadcast, will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m ET on Saturday, March 5th. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
To view a synopsis of La Fille du Régiment, click here.
