| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 26-Jan-2013 San Diego Civic Theatre | San Diego Opera's season opening Daughter of the Regiment is a crowd-pleaser |
Chicks dig the high notes. The enduring popularity of Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment seems to indicate as much. The plot is silly (even by opera’s standards) and much of the music is not as memorable as some of Donizetti’s more popular works. Yet even without the notorious Ah! mes amis and its nine high C’s, the charming work can be a crowd-pleaser as evidenced by San Diego Opera’s season opening performance Saturday evening.
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