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The Daughter of the Regiment (1990)

Comic Opera

Music by Gaetano Donizetti

Text by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-Francois-Alfred Bayard

English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin, revised by Michael Albano

By arrangement with G. Schirmer Inc.

The Daughter of the Regiment was first performed at the Opera-Cornique, Paris, February 11, 1840.

Dates of Performance
June 9, 13, 15, 19, 21

 

1990 Season
Peter Grimes     The Marriage of Figaro

The Daughter of the Regiment     The Devil and Kate

 

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Cast

Perrin Allen
Hortensius

 

Elaine Bonazzi
The Marquise of Birkenfeld

 

Joseph McKee
Sergeant Sulpice

Tracy Dahl
Marie

 

Stanford Olsen
Tonio

 

Christopher Schaldenbrand
A Corporal

Dana Krueger
The Duchess of Krakenthorp

 

David A. Dorsey
A Peasant

Creative Team

Stephen Lord
Conductor

 

Michael Albano
Stage Director

 

Richard M. lsackes
Set Designer

 

Linda Melloy
Costume Designer

Robert Wierzel
Lighting Stage

 

Cary John Franklin
Chorus Master

 

Elizabeth M. Bachman
Assistant Director

 

Timothy Ocel
Stage Manager

Jenny Wells
Assistant Stage Manager

 

Jennifer Siekert
Assistant Stage Manager

 

Tom Watson
Wig Master & Makeup

 

Ben Malensek
Repetiteur

Synopsis

ACT ONE: A Tyrolean landscape

ACT TWO: A hall in the Birkenfeldschloss

Marie, abandoned on a battlefield as a baby, has been adopted as the darling of the Twenty-first Regiment of Grenadiers. She tells her foster father, the old sergeant Sulpice, that she has fallen in love with a young Swiss named Tonio who recently rescued her from an Alpine precipice. Since the Regiment has decided that Marie must never marry any man who is not of their number, Tonio agrees to enlist with them.

However, it is revealed by the Marquise of Birkenfeld that Marie is really her niece: she whisks her off to the Birkenfeldschloss where she arranges for her properly aristocratic tutelage and her properly aristocratic marriage to the son of the Duchess of Krakenthorp. Marie’s distress at this unfortunate arrangement finally persuades the Marquise to disclose that the Daughter of the Regiment is in fact her own love-child, and Marie is allowed to marry Tonio after all.

This production is made possible by a gift from The Pulitzer Publishing Co. Foundation.

The soloists have been underwritten with the generous assistance of Mrs. Clark R. Gamble.

The services of the Saint Louis Symphony have been sponsored by Dr. Gene Spector, Fielding Holmes, Mr. & Mrs. David Mesker, Burton C. Bernard and Dr. & Mrs. Richard Shaw.

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