La Sonnambula
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 2, 2009
Closed Apr 3, 2009
Opened Mar 2, 2009
Closed Apr 3, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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http://www.metopera.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Director Mary Zimmerman underlines La Sonnambula's dual elements of sleep and wakefulness in an intriguing staging set in the present. Bellini's hauntingly lyrical score soars as performed by Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez, back from their sensational run together in La Fille du Régiment in leading opera houses around the world.
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Mary Zimmerman received a resounding chorus of boos on Monday night when she took her curtain call at the end of the Metropolitan Opera's extremely foolish -- if admittedly well-sung -- production of Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 melodrama La Sonnambula. And truth be told, there's no getting around her having made a silly story sillier as well as downright confusing.
Thinking she might lend weight to the story, which focuses on about-to-be-married Amina (Natalie Dessay), who sleepwalks into the bedroom occupied by the visiting Count Rodolfo (a strong-voiced Michele Pertusi) and thereby briefly aIienates the affections of fiance Ervino (Juan Diego Florez), Zimmerman has decided to alter Felice Rom[...]