Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Bellini: La Sonnambula.
It was at the urging of Dessay, a gutsy performer who embraces challenging work and radical rethinkings, that Zimmerman moved away from mountains and dirndls. Dessay has performed the role before and is widely quoted as saying she doesn’t think a traditional production of Sonnambula could ever work. In a previous production I saw in Santa Fe.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. Full Synopsis.Met Opera on Demand delivers instant access to more than 500 Met performances, including Live in HD videos, classic telecasts and radio broadcasts. Download the new iPad app to watch on your TV with Apple TV via AirPlay. Enjoy a free 7-day trial!
Until the recent recordings with Natalie Dessay and Cecilia Bartoli (a mezzo Amina) arrived, the La sonnambula recordings were pretty much dominated by Callas and Sutherland. Each recorded the work in the studio; Callas in mono (shame on EMI, this 1957 recording should have been in stereo) with numerous cuts, and Sutherland in stereo both in.On disc as in the opera house La sonnambula all too often tumbles into the mill-race that awaits below its heroine Amina as she sleepwalks on a high ledge in the last scene.
This is Bellini's Sleepwalker as we've never heard her before. Forget La Divina (Callas), La Stupenda (Sutherland) and La Dessay: Cecilia Bartoli, during her researches on one of the composer's.
