The Sleepwalker by Bellini, Fra (2022/2023), Instrueret af Barbara Lluch, Dirigent Maurizio Benini, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

Long before verismo exploited the theme of female infidelity from realistic charged with testosterone –and prone to the display of booming tenor highs–, Bellini approached what was then a thorny taboo with a care and an almost dramatic and vocal delicacy. oneiric. Set in the Swiss Alps, this semi-serious opera confronts the people of these idyllic lands – idealized by the romantics in William Tell , The Regiment's Daughter or Giselle – with their own pettiness, thrown into the void of mistrust and ostracism by the uncertain shadow of a vulgar suspicion. The somnambulism of the protagonist thus acts as the revulsive necessary to wake everyone up from a collective nightmare, while at the same time providing its climax to a poetic score that ended up becoming one of the most enduring and resistant icons of belcantismo. This new production is carried out by Bárbara Lluch, a national promise who, after a decade of work in London, has presented Le cinesi , La casa de Bernarda Alba and La del manojo de and who, according to what is known , will present La sonnambula with a lucid modern and feminist touch.