Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment
 Live from Covent Garden, Royal Opera House, London ? January 2007
 Natalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Florez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
 Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella (conductor) & Laurent Pelly (stage director)

Gramophone Awards 2008 Finalist - DVD

 Penguin Guide Rosette Winner

 BBC Music Magazine DVD Choice - June 2008

 BBC Music Magazine Awards 2009 DVD of the Year

 BBC Music Magazine June 2008 *****
“Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opera comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why. Natalie Dessay's skinny tomboy of a Marie combines a 110 per cent commitment to the physicality of her acting with a coloratura facility that is beyond criticism.”

Gramophone Magazine May 2008
“Dessay… is such a natural clown, and it is wonderful to behold the way she used little bits of the coloratura to illustrate comic points. Bruno Campanella conducts the Royal Opera forces with a delicate understanding of all the requirements of Donizetti's often exquisite instrumental detail.”

Penguin Guide 2011 edition
“Dessay establishes her star quality from her very first entry and vivaciously dominates Donizetti's delightful opera throughout...In short she is an unforgettably enchanting Marie, unlikely to be surpassed...[Florez] also sings and acts superbly.”

Presto Classical June 2014
“With Juan Diego Florez's wide-eyed Tonio riding the high Cs with insouciance and Natalie Dessay's tomboyish, hyperactive 'girl of the regiment', Laurent Pelly's 'Fille' exudes a charm, wit and joie de vivre that have made it one of the most successful Donizetti productions in recent years. A treat.”

The Times 25th April 2008 ****
“Reactions to Dawn French’s non-singing appearance as an ample and obdurate Duchess of Crackentorp will be, more than usual, a matter of taste...But there can surely be no argument about Dessay. As the regiment’s tomboy handmaiden Marie, pigtail curving, fist punching the air a la Nigel Kennedy, she shows incredible comic verve even when Donizetti’s music sends her voice skyrocketing. Singer, actress, clown: she’s all three. Theatrically, Florez isn’t even near the same league...[but] the Peruvian star’s grin, sparkle and ringing tenor keep us happy enough. When the nine high Cs of Ah, mes amis! are hit dead in the centre with the ease of a shrug, you know you’re in safe hands. And Tonio suits exactly the singer’s still-boyish charm... It all makes you want to be in the stalls, seeing and breathing every moment.”