Sandra Oh Makes Her Met Debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment October 17

 

Soprano Erin Morley makes her Met role debut as Marie; Lawrence Brownlee returns as Tonio

Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and bass-baritone Peter Kálmán make their Met role debuts as the Marquise of Berkenfield and Sgt. Sulpice

 

https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/la-fille-du-regiment

 

New York, New York (September 17, 2025)—Sandra Oh—freshly off her acclaimed performances in Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night—makes her Met debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Laurent Pelly’s production of Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment on October 17. Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award–winning actress Oh is known for her work on Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve as well as her stage work at the Public Theater in Stop Kiss and Satellites.

 

The bel canto comedy features soprano Erin Morley in her Met role debut as Marie, the titular “daughter of the regiment,” following her performances as Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto last season. It was also announced that Morley will portray one of the mothers in the upcoming Met-commission opera by Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by George Brant, The Mothers of Kherson.

 

 

A scene from Donizetti's "La Fille du Régiment." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

 

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee returns to the Met as Tonio and will return later this season as Lord Arturo Talbot in the Met’s new production of Bellini’s I Puritani. Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote makes her Met role debut as the Marquise of Berkenfield, and bass-baritone Peter Kálmán makes his Met role debut as Sgt. Sulpice. Conductor Giacomo Sagripanti returns to the Met to lead the cast, following his performances of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Puccini’s La Bohème last season.

 

La Fille du Régiment has been performed 116 times at the Met since its company premiere on January 6, 1902. Pelly’s production, with costumes by the director, premiered in 2008, featuring a creative team that includes set designer Chantal Thomas, lighting designer Joël Adam, choreographer Laura Scozzi, and dialogue by Agathe Mélinand.

 

Met Under 40

The Met Under 40 series continues on November 12 with a party ahead of the evening performance of La Fille du Régiment. Available exclusively for operagoers 40 and under, the event features complimentary wine, themed activities, and more. All Met Under 40 performances are available at special discounted rates.  

 

La Fille du Régiment Broadcasts on Radio and Online

The October 17 and 31 and November 12 performances of La Fille du Régiment will be broadcast live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on the SiriusXM app and streamed live on the Met’s website, metopera.org. Audio from a fall performance will also be broadcast over The Robert K. Johnson Foundation–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network and on the SiriusXM app on May 9, 2026.

 

 

Sandra Oh Biography

Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Sandra Oh started ballet lessons at the age of four and appeared in her first musical play, The Canada Goose, at the age of ten. She started working professionally at age 15 in television, theater, and commercials. After three years at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada, she beat out more than 1,000 other hopefuls and landed the coveted title role of the CBC telefilm The Diary of Evelyn Lau. Her performance brought her the 1994 Cannes FIPA d’Or for Best Actress and a Gemini (Canada’s Emmy Award) nomination for Best Actress.

 

Oh is currently starring in the independent film Can I Get a Witness?, which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, for which she also served as an executive producer. She recently starred in the Hulu comedy film Quiz Lady opposite Awkwafina, winning her first Emmy Award as producer, and the HBO/A24 limited series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer. On stage, she starred in the Off-Broadway production of The Welkin at Atlantic Theater Company and most recently starred alongside Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong’o, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson in this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park presentation of Twelfth Night. She can be seen next in the feature film Good Fortune, alongside Seth Rogan, Aziz Ansari, and Keanu Reeves, which will be released theatrically on October 17.

 

On television, Oh starred in and served as executive producer of the Netflix comedy series The Chair, which received SAG and Critic’s Choice Award nominations. She also starred in four seasons and executive produced two seasons of BBC America’s Killing Eve. For this series, Oh won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, a SAG Award for Female Actor in a Drama Series, and a Critics Choice Award for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, along with four Emmy Award nominations for Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Oh hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Oh starred on ten seasons of the hit ABC series Grey’s Anatomy, winning a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award and receiving five Emmy Award nominations for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang. She also starred on seven seasons of the HBO comedy Arli$$.

 

Oh has starred in Death and the Maiden at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago; completed a sold-out run of the world premiere of Satellites at New York’s Public Theater for playwright Diana Son; and appeared in the world premieres of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters at the La Jolla Playhouse, Julia Cho’s Office Hour at South Coast Repertory, and Diana Son’s Stop Kiss and Hansol Jung’s Wild Goose Dreams at the Public Theater.  

 

Oh starred in the Oscar-winning Fox Searchlight feature film Sideways, for which she won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Oh’s additional feature film credits include Under the Tuscan Sun, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Catfight, Umma, Defendor, Blindness, The Night Listener, For Your Consideration, Three Needles, Long Life Happiness and Prosperity, Sorry Haters, Ramona and Beezus, Rick, Bean, Guinevere, The Red Violin, Waking the Dead, The Princess Diaries, Pay or Play, and The Same Storm. Oh won her first Genie Award for her leading role in Double Happiness. Her performance in Last Night, a Canadian film about the end of the world, led to her winning a second Genie Award for Best Actress in 1999. Oh’s work on animated films includes Turning Red, Over the Moon, Raya and the Last Dragon, Window Horses, and The Tiger’s Apprentice. She currently stars in Prime Video’s animated series Invincible. Her additional television credits include the British production of Thorne: Scaredycat, HBO’s Six Feet Under, and Showtime’s Further Tales of the City. 

 

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La Fille du Régiment

 

Music by Gaetano Donizetti

Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard

 

 

Friday, October 17, at 7:30PM

Thursday, October 23, at 7:30PM

Sunday, October 26, at 3PM

Friday, October 31, at 7:30PM

Monday, November 3, at 8PM

Saturday, November 8, at 8PM

Wednesday, November 12, at 7:30PM 

 

Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti

Production: Laurent Pelly

Set Designer: Chantal Thomas

Costume Designer: Laurent Pelly

Lighting Designer: Joël Adam

Choreographer: Laura Scozzi

Dialogue: Agathe Mélinand

C. Graham Berwind, III Chorus Director: Tilman Michael

 

Marie: Erin Morley

Marquise of Berkenfield: Alice Coote

Duchess of Krakenthorp: Sandra Oh*

Tonio: Lawrence Brownlee

Sgt. Sulpice: Peter Kálmán

*Debut

 

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London; and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna