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La Sonnambula

La Sonnambula

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 21, 2009

Runtime

2h 18m

Genres

Music, Drama

Original Title

La Sonnambula

Production Companies

The Metropolitan Opera

Director

Barbara Willis Sweete

Description

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.