Opera Colorado
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard
Daughter of the Regiment
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Creative Team
Conductor – Ari Pelto
Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor – Sahar Nouri
Stage Director – Chía Patiño
Répétiteur – Lindsay Woodward
Set Designer – Boyd Ostroff
Costume Designer – Kathleen Trott
Duchess of Krakenthorp Costume Designer – Trevor Bowen
Lighting Designer – Joe Beumer
Wig and Makeup Designer – Ronell Oliveri
Cast
Hortensius – James Eder
Marquise of Birkenfeld – Catherine Cook
A Peasant – Daniel Miller
Sergeant Sulpice – Peter Strummer
Marie – Katrina Galka
Tonio – Andrew Stenson
Corporal – Alex Granito
Notary – Mason O’Brien
Duchess of Krakenthorp – Monét X Change
Opera Colorado, Daughter of the Regiment promotional teaser.
Reviews
Girl Dads, a Drag Star, and Opera: Opera Colorado Reimagines a comedic classic
Opera Colorado's new production of Donizetti's "The Daughter of the Regiment" offers audiences a contemporary perspective on the classic 1840 comedy, featuring RuPaul's Drag Race winner Monét X Change in a traditionally non-singing role that has been reimagined for her operatic background.
Stage Director Chía Patiño has inverted the opera's typical portrayal of how a military regiment influences its adopted daughter, instead exploring how the presence of a young woman transforms the soldiers around her.
"I think in general they tend to stage her as therefore a very manly woman," Patiño explained. "I decided to turn around and to see what happened if, as every father, the tenderness comes out in every father when they have a daughter .... There is a softer part in every man's heart that comes out when they're dealing specifically with daughters."
CBS News - "La Fille Du Regiment" features Opera Colorado debut of a drag queen
Opera Colorado Daughter of the Regiment Hand Program
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