[Met Performance] CID:352908
New Production
La Sonnambula {66} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/02/2009.

(Debut: Jeremy Galyon
Broadcast/Streamed)


Metropolitan Opera House
March 2, 2009 Broadcast/Streamed

New Production


LA SONNAMBULA {66}
Bellini-F. Romani

Amina...................Natalie Dessay
Elvino..................Juan Diego Flórez
Rodolfo.................Michele Pertusi
Lisa....................Jennifer Black
Teresa..................Jane Bunnell
Alessio.................Jeremy Galyon [Debut]
Notary..................Bernard Fitch

Conductor...............Evelino Pido

Production..............Mary Zimmerman
Set Designer............Daniel Ostling
Costume Designer........Mara Blumenfeld
Lighting Designer.......T. J. Gerckens
Choreographer...........Daniel Pelzig


Note: The Met's production is set in a contemporary rehearsal room, where a traditional production of La Sonnambula, set in a Swiss village, is being prepared. In that rehearsal space, all the events and relations that Bellini's characters experience also happen to the rehearsing preformers in their own "real" lives. In this staging, Amina and Elvino are played by two singers (also named Amina and Elvino) who are, like their fictional counterparts, lovers. The chorus consititutes the population of the Swiss village, and Lisa, the innkeeper of La Sonnambula, is the stage manager.

La Sonnambula received nine performances this season.

The production a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone

Additional funding from the Hermione Foundation, The Gilbert S. Kahn and John J. Noffo Kahn Endowment Fund, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Broadcast live on Sirius and XM Metropolitan Opera Radio
Streamed at metopera.org


Photos of La Sonnambula by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera.


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