Bellini - La Sonnambula - Dessay, Florez, Pertusi - PidoDVD9 - NTSC - 16:9 - All Regions - PCM, DTS 5.1 - 138+7min.
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese
DECCA 2010
Juan Diego Flórez - Elvino, Natalie Dessay - Amina, Michele Pertusi - Rodolfo
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Conductor: Evelino Pidò
Stage Director: Mary Zimmerman
In his latest Decca DVD release, bel canto star Juan Diego Flórez undertakes the role of Elvino in Bellini's romantic drama, playing opposite the mercurial French soprano, Natalie Dessay, in the MET 's striking, modern-dress production from March 2009. Bellini's romantic opera La Sonnambula (1831), hinges on the love and misunderstanding between Elvino and Amina (the `sleepwalker' of the title). Discovered in the bedroom of Rodolfo, Amina is assumed to have been unfaithful, and Elvino cancels their wedding. But in the dramatic final scene, he witnesses Amina sleepwalking, understands her innocence, and all ends happily. Mary Zimmerman's production plays with the dual realities of a rehearsal of the opera and a performance of the opera itself.
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