Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment…
1840 CE
The opera was written by Donizetti while living in Paris between 1838 and 1840 preparing a revised version of his then-unperformed Italian opera, Poliuto as Les martyrs for the Paris Opéra.
Since Martyrs has beeen delayed, the composer had had time to write the music for La fille, his first opera set to a French text, as well as to stage the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor as Lucie de Lammermoor.
As La fille, it will quickly become a popular success, partly because of the famous aria "Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête!", which requires of the tenor no fewer than nine high Cs.
La figlia del reggimento, a slightly different Italian-language version (in translation by Calisto Bassi), will be adapted to the tastes of the Italian public.
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