La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker)

Composer: Bellini, Vincenzo

Librettist/Text Author: Romani, Felice

Conductor: Ferro, Gabriele

Orchestra: Teatro la Fenice Orchestra

Chorus: Teatro la Fenice Chorus

Chorus Master: Moretti, Claudio Marino

A notary: Pastori, Raffaele

Alessio: Ciotoli, Dario

Amina: Pratt, Jessica

Elvino: Mukeria, Shalva

Il conte Rodolfo: Parodi, Giovanni Battista

Lisa: Viola, Anna

Teresa: Mellor, Julie

Set Designer: Checchetto, Massimo

Costume Designer: Tieppo, Carlos

Lighting Designer: Furian, Vilmo

Stage Director: Morassi, Bepi

Television Director: Mancini, Tiziano

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Date of Production: 2012

Venue: Teatro La Fenice, Venice

Playing Time: 02:11:22

Catalogue Number: A00009011

Synopsis

La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker)

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This "spirited and witty" – in the words of Germany's top daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – new production of Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula dazzles with its lovingly detailed and imaginative sets which reproduce a Swiss alpine resort in the 1930s. Complete with a majestic mountain panorama, cable car, post-bus and grand salon, not to mention the colorfully dressed resort guests, set designer Massimo Checchetto deploys an enchanting picture book of visual surprises. Premiered in Milan on 6 March 1831, La sonnambula is widely regarded as the composer's first true masterpiece.