La fille du régiment
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La fille du régiment is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 Februa
Euphrasie Borghèse as Marie and François-Louis Henry as Sulpice in the premiere
Mécène Marié de l'Isle sang Tonio.
1910 poster for the opera by Emile Finot
Final curtain call of the Metropolitan Opera's performance of 24 December 2011 with (l to r) Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio), Nino Machaidze (Marie), and Ann Murray (Marquise)
Vivandière
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Vivandière or cantinière is a French name for women who are attached to military regiments as sutlers or canteen keepers. Their actual historic functions of selling wine to the troops and working in c
La fille du régiment
…Regiment of the French army (in the Italian version it is the Eleventh) arrives and assures everyone that the regiment will restore order. Marie, the vivandière (canteen girl) of the Regiment enters, and Sulpice is happy to see her (duet: Sulpice and Marie: "Mais, qui vient? Tiens, Marie, notre fille" / "But…
A French cantinière in the Crimea during the Crimean War in 1855, photographed by Roger Fenton
A vivandière (left) with French Imperial Army soldiers
The Siege of Antwerp by Horace Vernet. A cantinière can be seen on the right tending to wounded soldiers
A Sweet Caporal cigarette card (1896) of a cantinière of 1853