From Monday night's production of La Fille du Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera, Juan Diego Florez sings the aria "Ah, Mes Amis," with its nine high C's. And then he sings it again! Monday was an ...
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 ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These are the sort of discoveries one expects at Donizetti Opera, a festival in the composer’s Northern Italian ...
In Act Two, a lovesick Nemorino sings the bittersweet aria "Una furtiva lagrima." He sees "one furtive teardrop" in Adina's eye, a sign that he may still have a chance with her, and says he'd sooner ...