Name: La sonnambula
Start: 2009-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-04-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Natalie Dessay

Amina

Tenor

Juan Diego Flórez

Elvino

Barry Banks

Bass

Michele Pertusi

Count Rodolfo

Jennifer Black

Lisa

Mezzo-soprano

Jane Bunnell

Teresa

Bernard Fitch

Notary

Jeremy Galyon

Alessio

Conductor

Evelino Pidò

Stage director

Mary Zimmerman

Set designer

Daniel Ostling

Costume designer

Mara Blumenfeld

Lighting designer

TJ Gerckens

Choreographer

Daniel Pelzig

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Italian

La sonnambula -  (The Sleepwalker)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

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.

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