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Csaba Polgár tries to make the best of La Fille du régiment in Budapest

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“Szemere was a wonderfully ebullient Marie with a lyric coloratura that seems created for the role”
Reviewed at Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest on 29 January 2022
Donizetti, La Fille du régiment
Hungarian State Opera
Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Conductor
Csaba Polgár, Director
Lili Izsák, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Tamás Bányai, Lighting Designer
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Ármin Szabó-Székely, Dramaturgy
Zita Szemere, Marie
Gergely Boncsér, Tonio
Mária Farkasréti, Marquise de Berkenfield
András Palerdi, Sulpice
Bence Pataki, Hortensius
Tünde Szalontay, Duchesse de Crakentorp
Karina Sarkissova, Dancer
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