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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

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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