Diana Damrau wakes up this bel canto classic.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
The Metropolitan Opera is presenting three Bellini operas this season. The second of them is La Sonnambula, the composer's most light-hearted work and the only Bellini work that could in any sense be called a comedy. It is the story of Amina, the titular sleepwalker whose nocturnal wanderings make the people of an Italian village suddenly believe in ghosts.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Sleep walkin': Diana Damrau (center) stars as Amina in La Sonnambula. Photo by Marty Sohl © 2014 The Metropolitan Opera. |
