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| DVD Information |  | Donizetti - The Daughter of the Regiment / Wendelken-Wilson, Sills, McDonald, Wolf Trap | | | | UPC: 089948421290 | | Musicals & Performing Arts : Classical : Opera : By Performer : Sills, Beverly | | Amazon.com
This Daughter of the Regiment is a great memento of Beverly Sills in one of her best roles. She once described her part in Donizetti's screwball comedy as Lucille Ball with high notes. In this enjoyable 1974 performance, that's how she plays the unsophisticated orphan girl adopted by a regiment of Napoleon's army, smitten with a peasant lad, and unwillingly betrothed to a decadent duke. Her larger-than-life presence is supported by a musically and comically capable cast, oriented toward broad comic effects, with results something like a high-grade sitcom.
Donizetti originally wrote the opera to a French libretto and later adapted it in Italian. Sung in English, it often sounds a bit like Gilbert and Sullivan. The music is both witty and spectacular, with plenty of high-note acrobatics (which Sills and William McDonald negotiate gracefully) and slapstick interactions for Spiro Malas as the gruff Sergeant Sulpice and Muriel Costa-Greenspon as the socially pretentious Marquise. --Joe McLellan
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Before live opera telecasts became regular television events, The Great Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA) embarked on an ambitious project. In the summer of 1974, WETA began videotaping a number of live operatic and concert performances at the Filene Center in Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, for telecast in an innovative new series entitled In Performance at Wolf Trap. The overwhelming success of the series proved to public television... read more | | | | Products related to "Donizetti - The Daughter of the Regiment / Wendelken-Wilson, Sills, McDonald, Wolf Trap" from Amazon.com | |
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