Bellini: La Sonnambula
2009•2h 18m•Released
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Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everything ends happily. Natalie Dessay as Amina and Juan Diego Flórez as Elvino deliver bel canto magic and vocal fireworks in Mary Zimmerman’s 2009 production. The Tony award-winning director transfers Bellini’s bucolic tale to a rehearsal room in contemporary New York, where an opera company rehearses La Sonnambula—and where the singers are truly in love with each other.
Director
Barbara Willis Sweete
Writer
Felice Romani
Languages
Italian
Studio
The Metropolitan Opera
Cast
Natalie Dessay
Amina
Juan Diego Flórez
Elvino
Michele Pertusi
Count Rodolfo
Jennifer Black
Lisa
Jeremy Galyon
Alessio
Jane Bunnell
Teresa
Bernard Fitch
Notary
Deborah Voigt
Self - Host
MET Orchestra
Production
Company
The Metropolitan Opera
Producer
Louisa Briccetti
Producer
Victoria Warivonchik
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