La Fille du Regiment

[chickenfeet]

It lived up to the hype. Natalie Dessay was wonderful. She's a great singer of course but she's also a wonderful comic actress and gives off so much energy. Juan Diego Flórez was perfect as Tonio and the supporting cast was wonderful too. The whole production was fast paced, beautiful, touching and, above all, very, very funny. Everybody involved was obviously having loads of fun and that communicated to the audience. I really don't think anyone who saw this production would be able to claim that opera is difficult or inaccessible.

And they were selling the DVD for less than $20. Score!

Comments

[darcydodo]

Damn you, I'd convinced myself that I wasn't going to give in to the temptation of going to the opera tomorrow, and I was going to do work all day instead, since I was busy all day today.

And you just went and crumbled my resolve with one post.

[damiel.livejournal.com]

Did he encore the 9 high Cs?

(Still searching for a ticket to this production...)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

No encore. He did slip a high D flat into his second act aria.

[linzq.livejournal.com]

'cause all the Cs aren't enough ;)

Wow.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

You should check out next year's season. There will be 11 performances and, if it's like this year and you can buy a package, it's less than $20 per opera.

[linzq.livejournal.com]

I might actually get to see something live... but yes, I should be able to avoid this working-Saturdays business that's been getting in the way!!!!

[linzq.livejournal.com]

PS. They sell the DVDs at the movie theatre? Did they have the Lucia???

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

They were only selling La Fille du Regiment

[linzq.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Interesting.
Any leads to buy them elsewhere?

I'm definitely excited about this.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Amazon I guess, if they are vailable at all

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Excellent! It had all the makings of an absolutely splendid night; I'm glad that it really was. I was too late to get tickets for this season, but, after the reports from you, I'm definitely going to go to some next time round...

[linzq.livejournal.com]

Jealous.

What a fantastic cast!