La Fille du Régiment
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La Fille du Régiment[1] (La Figlia del Reggimento in the Italian version), is a two act opéra comique [2] by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)[3].
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The original text
Composed by Donizetti, with a French libretto was by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean François Alfred Bayard, the work was first performed in French on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse).
Translations and adaptations
The original French libretto was translated into English as The Daughter of the Regiment, and performed in London.
Two English stage plays have been based on the opera:
The Daughter of the Regiment (Fitzball) by Fitzball (1844) and Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War by Buckstone (1856).
