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.
Cast
Crew
Barbara Willis Sweete
Director
Mary Zimmerman
Director, Production Design
Felice Romani
Writer
Peter Gelb
Executive Producer
Louisa Briccetti
Producer
Victoria Warivonchik
Producer
Mara Blumenfeld
Costume Designer
Tom Watson
Hairstylist
Victor Callegari
Makeup Artist
Matiki Anoff
Makeup Artist
T.J. Gerckens
Lighting Design
Jay David Saks
Music Producer
Vincenzo Bellini
Music
Daniel Ostling
Set Designer
Daniel Pelzig
Choreographer
Eugène Scribe
Original Story
Evelino Pidò
Conductor
Elena Park
Supervising Producer
Mia Bongiovanni
Supervising Producer