SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS 
Curated and Introduced by Sunit Tandon

OPERA
Gaetano Donizetti: La Fille du regiment
Opéra-comique in two acts
(121 min; 2005; dvd; English subtitles)

From the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, with Patrizia Ciofi (Marie); Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio); Francesca Franci (La Marquise de Berkenfeld); Dario Benini (Hortensius); Nicola Ulivieri (Sulpice); Filippo Bettoschi (a Corporal); Maurizia Burlando (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Stage Director: Emilio Sagi
Costume and Set Designer: Julio Galán
Lighting: Daniele Naldi

Top bel canto tenor, Juan Diego Florez, and acclaimed Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi lead a superb ensemble cast in Donizetti’s sparkling French language opéra-comique in a production that sets the action in the final days of World War II. Marie is the daughter of an American army captain, Tonio is a young French villager whose love for her leads him to join the American ranks. When the secret of Marie’s birth is revealed and her mother insists on an aristocratic suitor, only an appeal to the memory of young love can reunite them.