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La Sonnambula (2009) [N/A]

Release Date:
March 21, 2009

Original Title:
La Sonnambula

Genres:
Drama | Music

Production Companies:
The Metropolitan Opera

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 138

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Choreographer:
Daniel Pelzig

Conductor:
Evelino Pidò

Costume Designer:
Mara Blumenfeld

Director:
Barbara Willis Sweete
Mary Zimmerman

Executive Producer:
Peter Gelb

Hairstylist:
Tom Watson

Lighting Design:
T.J. Gerckens

Makeup Artist:
Victor Callegari
Matiki Anoff

Music:
Vincenzo Bellini

Music Producer:
Jay David Saks

Original Story:
Eugène Scribe

Producer:
Victoria Warivonchik
Louisa Briccetti

Production Design:
Mary Zimmerman

Set Designer:
Daniel Ostling

Supervising Producer:
Mia Bongiovanni
Elena Park

Writer:
Felice Romani

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