La Sonnambula: Vincenzo Bellini

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Be ravished by the music of Bellini at his most lyrical with Rollando Villazon staging this romantic tale. American coloratura soprano Nadine Sierra sings Amina in this concert performance.

Written just a few months before Norma, La Sonnambula enjoyed a great success in the 19th Century, sung by Pasta and Malibran, before sinking into relative obscurity until Callas returned it to prominence in the 1950s. Although the story is slight, the music exemplifies Bellini at his most tender, and most inventive, conveying the complex emotions of his sleepwalking heroine, powerless before this mysterious ailment, in some of his most delightful music.

Riccardo Frizza | direction
Rolando Villazón | stage direction
Johannes Leiacker | set design
Brigitte Reiffenstuel | costumes
Davy Cunningham | lights

Nadine Sierra | Amina
Alexander Tsymbalyuk | Rodolfo
Francesco Demuro | Elvino
Annunziata Vestri | Teresa
Jennifer France | Lisa
Marc Scoffoni | Alessio

Paris Chamber Orchestra
Radio France Choir | direction Alessandro di Stefano
Maîtrise des Hauts‐de‐Seine | direction Gaël Darchen

Opera sung in Italian, with French and English surtitles