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Bellini: La Sonnambula

2009 Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete

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.

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Natalie Dessay

Natalie Dessay

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Amina

Juan Diego Flórez

Juan Diego Flórez

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Elvino

Michele Pertusi

Michele Pertusi

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Count Rodolfo

Jennifer Black

Jennifer Black

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Lisa

Jeremy Galyon

Jeremy Galyon

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Alessio

Jane Bunnell

Jane Bunnell

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Teresa

Bernard Fitch

Bernard Fitch

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Notary

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