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.
Stars: Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Michele Pertusi, Jennifer Black, Jeremy Galyon, Jane Bunnell
Crew: Barbara Willis Sweete (Director), Vincenzo Bellini (Music), Evelino Pidò (Conductor), Mary Zimmerman (Production Design), Mary Zimmerman (Director), Daniel Ostling (Set Designer)
Country: United States of America
Language: Italiano
Studio: The Metropolitan Opera
Runtime: 138 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 21, 2009
IMDb: 10
