5 days to the Fille premiere!

“It’s fun,” says Juan Diego Flórez, “it’s real fun!” The Peruvian tenor sings Tonio, the young man in love with the title heroine, in the Met’s new production of La Fille du Régiment, which opens on Monday. “We did the show in London first, then in Vienna, and now at the Met,” Flórez continues, “and I think we really made an intelligent comedy.” Laurent Pelly’s staging has been hailed as one of the funniest opera production in recent memory, and the tenor agrees that it’s something special. “We have a great director and a very good cast,” he says. “I have done Fille before, but never with such an actress as Natalie Dessay. Marie, the girl I’m in love with, has to be a tomboy, and I never saw a real tomboy until I worked with Natalie.”

Check back for more backstage news and interviews as we make our way to the Met’s final new production premiere of the season.

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