Arts & Leisure
It’s an opera! It’s a rom-com! It’s ‘La Fille Du Regiment!’

Richard Bernstein, Sarah LeMesh and Patrick Bessenbacher (pictured from left to right above and to the left) rehearse with pianist Yihao Zhou for the upcoming performance of “La Fille du Regiment” at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. This Opera
Company of Middlebury performance begins May 31.
Independent photo/Steve James
May 23, 2024
It begins the way all rom-coms do: Two single people “meet cute.” Picking flowers on a mountainside in the Tyrolean Alps, Marie topples off a cliff, but has the good luck to fall safely into the arms of Tonio, a local peasant.
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