[Met Performance] CID:355383
La Sonnambula {77} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/21/2014.
Metropolitan Opera House
March 21, 2014
LA SONNAMBULA {77}
Vincenzo Bellini-Felice Romani
Amina...................Diana Damrau
Elvino..................Javier Camarena
Rodolfo.................Michele Pertusi
Lisa....................Rachelle Durkin
Teresa..................Elizabeth Bishop
Alessio.................Jordan Bisch
Notary..................Bernard Fitch
Conductor...............Marco Armiliato
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.