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Pärnu Opera Days '24: "The Daughter of the Regiment"
A comic opera in 2 acts
Composer Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard
Spoken dialogues translated into Lithuanian by Virginijus Pupšys
Director Jūratė Sodytė
Stage designer Sigita Šimkūnaitė
Costume designer Agnė Kuzmickaitė
Lighting designer Andrius Stasiulis
Choirmaster Vladimiras Konstantinovas
Conductor Martynas Staškus
On stage Soloists, Opera Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Klaipėda State Music Theatre
The French comic opera La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) has reigned in the world’s opera houses for almost two hundred years ever since its premiere in Paris, in 1840, before it received its first production in Lithuania at the Klaipėda State Music Theatre in November 2021. Donizetti seems to have written the opera in just a few weeks: "What I did well, I always did quickly; and I was often reproached for the very carelessness that cost me the most time." The success of the La fille du régiment confirms this observation. The music of the opera is bursting with ostensible simplicity and carefree gaiety but all the same requires a veritable tour de force of voices, sometimes reminiscent of vocal pyrotechnics, and calls for extraordinary theatrical abilities of the two leading performers.
In the opera’s staging introduced to the Lithuanian audiences, director Jūratė Sodytė decided to change the period and locale of the action from the time of Napoleon’s Austrian Campaign (1805–1815) to the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962).
The plot of this romantic comedy is enacted on stage of the Klaipėda State Music Theatre by the company’s best opera soloists and guest singers, members of the choir and ballet company. According to the latest trends in the world’s opera houses, the vocal lines are sung in French and spoken dialogues are translated into Lithuanian to ensure better understanding of the circumstances that propel action.
