Bellini: La Sonnambula
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Bernard Fitch · Deborah Voigt · Jane Bunnell · Jennifer Black · Jeremy Galyon · Juan Diego Flórez · MET Orchestra · Michele Pertusi · Natalie Dessay · Barbara Willis Sweete · Mary Zimmerman · Felice Romani