"The Daughter of the Regiment" Topic

Tomorrow's Metropolitan Opera broadcast – wqxr.org if not on your local station, 1300 EST – is repeat of 1973 production of Donizetti's _The Daughter of the Regiment_, with Joan Sutherland as Marie, a vivandière of the 21st Regiment and Luciano Pavarotti as Tonio, the lad who enlists to join her.

"It's an opera which ends with everybody alive and happy"

A 3-minute summary is at
link

"It's an opera which ends with everybody alive and happy"

Isn't that illegal?

I agree with rmaker – kind of like most anime movies

Listening to the MET opera on Saturdays is always a joy of mine. I've also seen modern renditions place the opera during WW1, which is kinda neat and not too jarring (vivandieres existed then too, albeit heavily restricted)

Someone needs to get a sergeant major to teach them to salute in the French style, not the German!

What seems a lifetime ago during the lockdown in early 2020 the Met was streaming a free opera every night. One of the highlights for me was the 2008 production of La fille du régiment with Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Set in World War I instead of during the Napoleonic wars, in the last scene what rolls onto the stage but a French FT-17 tank. Now that's opera.

@Ryan T
Found this Vienna performance in 2007. Tank shows up at 2:07:50
YouTube link

Thank for the link. I did a bit of searching and it appears Dessay and Flórez made the rounds of several venues (along with the tank). Great fun though, wherever they performed.