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La Fille du regiment – Donizetti – Royal Opera House

Eat your heart out Florez and Dessay.  A new pair of principals have hit London and star in Laurent Pelly’s 12 year old production of La Fille du regiment.  The mishmash production is very much a ‘Dad’s Army’ fun billing.  The comedy is always at the forefront and is infectious and the two new principals bring the house down.  In fact there appears no singing weak link in a most enjoyable evening. 

Werther – Jules Massenet – Israeli Opera

Jules Massenet took a novel from Goethe to compose a lyrical 4 act opera from a French libretto by Eduard Blau.  It was meant to have its premiere at the Paris Opera Comique in 1887, but due to a fire at the Opera House this did not happen and it did not take place until 1892 in a German language translation in Vienna.  The French language premiere followed that year in Geneva.