La Sonnambula

La Sonnambula

138 mins | Drama, Music | March 21, 2009

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.

La Sonnambula

138 mins | Drama, Music | March 21, 2009

La Sonnambula
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.
Producers The Metropolitan Opera
Original title La Sonnambula
Directors Mary Zimmerman, Barbara Willis Sweete
Writers Felice Romani, Eugène Scribe

Cast

Natalie Dessay

as Amina

Juan Diego Flórez

as Elvino

Michele Pertusi

as Count Rodolfo

Jennifer Black

as Lisa

Jeremy Galyon

as Alessio

Jane Bunnell

as Teresa

Bernard Fitch

as Notary

Deborah Voigt

as Self - Host