What's a Donizetti opera with a French libretto?
La fille du régiment
L'elisir d'amore
Don Pasquale
Il campanello
Answer
"La fille du régiment" is a comic opera by Gaetano Donizetti, with a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. The opera tells the story of Marie, a vivandière (a woman who sells food and drink to soldiers) in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars who falls in love with Tonio, a young Tyrolean conscript.
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