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| Composer | Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Year | 1831 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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Bellini: La sonnambula
Riccardo Frizza; Rolando Villazón; Metropolitan Opera; Johannes Leiacker; Brigitte Reiffenstuel; Donald Holder; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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Gimadieva's dark coloratura impresses in La sonnambula
Seven years after their production was voted as “production of the year” at Oper Stuttgart, Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito's La sonnambula opens in Berlin.
Diana Damrau knocks it “out of the park” in Met's La Sonnambula
This year’s revival of Mary Zimmerman’s La Sonnambula at the Met requires too much suspension of disbelief to seriously work, but it provides a fun and vibrant take on Bellini’s bel canto opera all the same. In the title role, Diana Damrau knocked it out of the park.
Eglise Gutiérrez sparkles in a sleepy Covent Garden Sonnambula
When you discover your bride-to-be in another man's bed on the eve of your wedding day, the excuse "Darling, I must have been sleepwalking" rates somewhere near the same level of credibility as "Sir, the dog ate my homework." But hey, this is opera, and bel canto opera at that. You didn't come to Bellini's La Sonnambula for the story and the drama: you came here for the singing.
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Bel canto and beyond: Kazushi Ono on New National Theatre, Tokyo
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Kazushi Ono, Artistic Director at Tokyo’s foremost opera house, introduces this year’s bel canto-infused season – and explains his vision for the house’s distinctive Theatergeist.