Name: La Fille du régiment
Start: 2010-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall

Organization

Bass

Baritone

Brian Montgomery

Sergeant Sulpice

Albert Lim

Hortensius

Soprano

Brenda Scofield

The Duchess of Crakentorp

Spoken

Pianist

Nancy Loo

A notary

Stage director

Lo Kingman

Conductor

Liao Guomin

Lighting designer

Luo Wenji

Costume designer

Liu Songxin

Set designer

Wu Jiamin

Chorus master

Fu Runguang

Conductor (+1)

Lio Kuokman

Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall

Musica Viva Hong Kong

Christina Raphaelle Haldane

Marie

Colette Lam

Tenor

John Zuckerman

Tonio

Mezzo-soprano

Melody Sze

The Marquise of Berkenfield

Contralto

Carol Lin

Chen Yong

Tan Tianle

Italian

La Fille du régiment -  (The Daughter of the Regiment)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

La Fille du régiment Donizetti

Opera

The Daughter of the Regiment

Chinese

English

Approved

With this Musica Viva production of The Daughter of the Regiment, I finally fulfill my wish to present to the Hong Kong audience the three great comedies of Gaetano Donizetti. My first production of The Elixir of Love and Don Pasquale, many years ago, also took place in the City Hall, up to now still the venue with the best acoustics in the city.

I believe that opera is musically most effective if sung in the language originally set by the composer. I also believe that comedies are theatrically most effective if interpreted in a language to which the audience can immediately respond. Donizetti originally composed this opera for the Opera Comique of Paris with pages of French dialogues. He later created an Italian version with long recitatives. I find the French version artistically more satisfying.

In order to generate more immediate response from our audience, I have chosen to exercise some degree of poetic licence by altering slightly the historical context, the geographical reference and the background of certain characters in order to make it natural and logical for the dialogues to be spoken in English. All this is done without changing a single note in the music.

By inventing a humorous pantomime in the Overture to substitute for a good deal of the dialogues, I have been able to speed up the action considerably. I hope you will enjoy it.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew