Ah! Mes Amis!

Opera Colorado present their latest production of this hilarious opera from Donizetti about a young girl who, having been raised by a French army regiment, is shocked to discover the aristocratic truth to her beginnings during a trip to the Swiss Alps. Expect the best of Donizetti in this colorful comedy, replete with slapstick, masquerade and flag waving style!

Orphan Marie has been raised by an enthusiastic band of French soldiers, of whom she thinks as her 'fathers'. When she is of age, a mysterious stranger arrives from the past to train her up for high society and eventually take her as his wife. But tomboy Marie isn't going down without a fight, and anyway, her heart is already promised to Tonio, a strapping peasant lad who saved her life...