[Met Performance] CID:352908

New Production

La Sonnambula
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, March 2, 2009
Broadcast

Debut : Jeremy Galyon




La Sonnambula (66)
Vincenzo Bellini | Felice 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 Pidò


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.
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.

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

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