The Daughter of the Regiment by Donizetti, lr. 08 abu. 2015, Noiztik (2015/2015), Zuzendaria Ned Canty, Zuzendaria Speranza Scappucci, Crosby Theatre, Santa Fe, United States

When is it too late for happiness? Never. There is surely no more engaging comic heroine in all of opera than Marie, Gaetano Donizetti’s plucky Daughter of the Regiment. Seemingly abandoned on a battlefield as an infant, Marie was found by a military regiment and taken under their collective wing. Now the formerly adorable child has blossomed as a winsome, vivacious young woman — still the regiment’s mascot, but also the object of the shepherd Tonio’s affections. And Tonio has matrimony in mind.