Vincenzo Bellini’s moving opera La sonnambula presents at the Teatro Real with a modern, feminist interpretation by Bárbara Lluch, and a magnificent cast led by Jessica Pratt and Xabier Anduaga, under the musical direction of Maurizio Benini.
Set in the Swiss Alps, the story transports us to an oppressive rural society dominated by superstition and prejudice, in which the protagonist, Amina, suffers an episode of sleepwalking that leads to her being discovered in another man’s bedroom, sparking false suspicions of infidelity towards her fiancé. A bel canto gem featuring great arias such as the famous ‘Ah! Non credea mirarti’.
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Melodramma in two acts
Music by Vicenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
Libretto by Felice Romani, based on the Ballet Pantomine La Sonnambula, ou l'arrivée d'un noveau seigneur by Eugène Scribe
Premiere al the Teatro Carcano, Milan, 6 March 1850
Premiere at the Teatro Real, 10 December 1850
New production by the Teatro Real in coproduction with the New National Theatre Tokyo, Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona and the Teatro Massimo of Palermo
Artistic team
Conductor | Maurizio Benini
Stage Director | Bárbara Lluch
Stage Designer | Christof Hetzer
Costume Designer | Clara Peluffo
Choreographer | Iratxe Ansa
Lighting Designer | Urs Schönebaum
Chorus Master | Andrés Máspero
Cast
Lisa | Rocío Pérez
Alessio | Isaac Galán
Amina | Jessica Pratt
Teresa | Monica Bacelli
Notary | Gerardo López
Elvino | Xabier Anduaga
Count Rodolfo | Roberto Tagliavini
Teatro Real Chorus & Orchestra
