The Daughter of the Regiment, an 1840 opera by Gaetano Donizetti, has been depicted on film numerous times:The Daughter of the Regiment, the first opera film, a two-minute production premiering in New York City in July 1898 Daughter of the Regiment , a British-German production Daughter of the Regiment , an Austrian-German production The Daughter of the Regiment , a Mexican production The Daughter of the Regiment , a West German-Italian production Daughter of the Regiment , an Austrian production Die Regimentstochter (1962), a TV movie starring Dutch tenor John van Kesteren as Tonio