Donizetti - La Fille du Regiment [2 DVDs] - DVD

"Interpreters"
Marie - Patrizia Ciofi
Tonio - Juan Diego Florez
La Marquise de Berkenfield - Francesca Franci
Hortensius - Dario Benini
Sulpice - Nicola Ulivieri
Un Caporal - Filippo Ulivieri
La Duchesse de Crakentorp - Maurizia Burlando
Orchestra e coro del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
Conductor - Riccardo Frizza

Today's top "bel canto" tenor, Juan Diego Flórez, and acclaimed Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi lead a superb ensemble cast in Donizetti's sparkling opéra-comique from the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. This acclaimed production 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 für her leads him to join the American ranks. Then 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 him...