From the sound of the vociferous boos that greeted Zimmerman and her production team in their one curtain call on opening night, the Met audience isn't buying this cost-saver. At first glance, Mary ...

Set your sights on a pastoral village in the Dolomites during the early 1920s — a far cry from the Arcadian scene pictured by composer Vincenzo Bellini in his melodrama “La Sonnambula” (The ...

Whitefish Theatre Company, in collaboration with the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, presents “La Sonnambula” (“The Sleepwalker”) as the first opera in the 2025-26 live streaming season of the ...

The production still has problems, but the singing is a joy, with soprano Diana Damrau nearly perfect in the lead role Michele Pertusi as Rodolfo and Diana Damrau as Amina in Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula.

For the new Metropolitan Opera production of Vincenzo Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” (1831), which opened on Monday, tenor-turned-director Rolando Villazón came up with a concept that dealt thoughtfully ...

Staging the classics can always present a risk, particularly in an era of evolved political sensibilities. However, director Barbara Lluch manages a balance between authenticity and modernity with her ...

ALAMEDA — Vincenzo Bellini’s operas are almost as well known for the grisly murders they depict as for his long flowing melodic lines. “La Sonnambula,” which Island City Opera is performing in the ...

Last heard at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972, La Sonnambula has appeared only intermittently in the company's repertory, but always to feature great coloratura sopranos, such as Marcella Sembrich, ...