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opera Bellini's La Sonnambula Marco Arturo Marelli (stage director), Evelino Pidò (conductor) – Natalie Dessay (Amina), Javier Camarena (Elvino) – Opéra Bastille

Marco Arturo Marelli (stage director), Evelino Pidò (conductor) – Natalie Dessay (Amina), Javier Camarena (Elvino) – Opéra Bastille

Bellini's La Sonnambula Marco Arturo Marelli (stage director), Evelino Pidò (conductor) – Natalie Dessay (Amina), Javier Camarena (Elvino) – Opéra Bastille

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For the first time at the Paris Opera, Natalie Dessay sings one of the most beautiful roles of Italian romanticism.

She embodies the modest and charming Amina, this sleepwalker who, escaping from her bedroom, becomes another person as she wanders through the night.

This opera by Bellini is a score seemingly written in a daydream, where melody is apparently suspended in time and the heroine's very soul rises to the surface, and where instruments take on transparent tones.

At the same time, Bellini portrays the cruelest of worlds – our own – where it is more than difficult for fragility and gentleness to shine past the darker rashness and unfriendliness of the characters.

Cast

  • Marco Arturo Marelli | Stage director, Lighting
  • Dagmar Niefind-Marelli | Costumes
  • Natalie Dessay | Amina
  • Michele Pertusi | Il Conte Rodolfo
  • Cornelia Oncioiu | Teresa
  • Javier Camarena | Elvino
  • Marie-Adeline Henry | Lisa
  • Nahuel Di Pierro | Alessio
  • Claudia Galli | A Cretan Woman
  • Anna Wall | Second Cretan Woman
  • Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris
  • Evelino Pidò | Conductor
  • Chœurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris
  • Patrick Marie Aubert | Chorus master

Program

  • Vincenzo Bellini, La Sonnambula
    • I, 1: "Viva, viva Amina"
    • I, 1: "Tutto è gioia, tutto è festa"
    • I, 1: "Viva Amina"
    • I, 1: "Care compagne, e voi teneri amici"
    • I, 1: "Sovra il sen la man' mi posa"
    • I, 1: "Io più di tutti, o Amina"
    • I, 1: "Perdona, o mia diletta, il breve indugio"
    • I, 1: "Prendi: l'anel ti dono"
    • I, 1: "Ah, vorrei trovar le parole"
    • I, 1: "Domani, appena aggiorni"
    • I, 1: "Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni" (Rodolfo)
    • I, 1: "Contezza del paese avete voi, Signor?"
    • I, 1: "A fosco cielo, a notte bruna"
    • I, 1: "Basta così"
    • I, 1: "Son geloso del zefiro errante"
    • I, 2: "Davver, non mi dispiace"
    • I, 2: "Che veggio?"
    • I, 2: "O Ciel! che tento?"
    • I, 2: "Osservate : l'uscio è aperto"
    • I, 2: "È menzogna"
    • I, 2: "D'un pensiero e d'un accento"
    • I, 2: "Non più nozze"
    • II, 1: "Qui la selva è più folta ed ombrosa"
    • II, 1: "Reggimi, o buona madre"
    • II, 1: "Vedi, o madre... è afflitto e mesto"
    • II, 1: "Viva il conte!"
    • II, 1: "Ah! Perché non posso odiarti"
    • II, 2: "Lasciami: avver compreso assai dovresti"
    • II, 2: "De' lieti auguri a voi son grata"
    • II, 2: "E fia pur vero, Elvino"
    • II, 2: "Lisa! mendace anch'essa!"
    • II, 2: "Signor? Che creder deggio?"
    • II, 2: "Oh! Se una volta sola"
    • II, 2: "Ah, non credea mirarti"
    • II, 2: "Ah! Non giunge uman pensiero"

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Don Kent
  • Venue: Opéra Bastille (Paris, France)
  • Production date: 2010
  • Recording date: 15/02/2010
  • Duration: 2 h 14 min
  • Production: © Idéale Audience / Opéra national de Paris / NHK / Mezzo
  • Available version(s): EN
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