Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everything ends happily. Natalie Dessay as Amina and Juan Diego Flórez as Elvino deliver bel canto magic and vocal fireworks in Mary Zimmerman’s 2009 production. 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.
Unfortunately the movie La Sonnambula is not yet available on HBO Max.
Sound | Vincenzo Bellini | Music |
Directing | Barbara Willis Sweete | Director |
Production | Elena Park | Supervising Producer |
Production | Louisa Briccetti | Producer |
Sound | Evelino Pidò | Conductor |
Art | Daniel Ostling | Set Designer |
Production | Peter Gelb | Executive Producer |
Lighting | T.J. Gerckens | Lighting Design |
Production | Mia Bongiovanni | Supervising Producer |
Crew | Daniel Pelzig | Choreographer |
Art | Mary Zimmerman | Production Design |
Directing | Mary Zimmerman | Director |
Production | Victoria Warivonchik | Producer |
Sound | Jay David Saks | Music Producer |
Writing | Felice Romani | Writer |
Costume & Make-Up | Tom Watson | Hairstylist |
Writing | Eugène Scribe | Original Story |
Costume & Make-Up | Victor Callegari | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Matiki Anoff | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Mara Blumenfeld | Costume Designer |