Organization

Conductor

Giampaolo Bisanti

Stage director

Jaco van Dormael

Choreographer

Michèle Anne De Mey

Set designer

Vincent Lemaire

Costume designer

Fernando Ruiz

Lighting designer

Nicolas Olivier

Video designer

Giacinto Caponio

Singer

Soprano

Jessica Pratt

Amina

Tenor

René Barbera

Elvino

Bass

Marko Mimica

Count Rodolfo

Mezzo-soprano

Julie Bailly

Teresa

Ugo Rabec

Alessio

Benoît Delvaux

Notary

Marina Monzó

Lisa

Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Liège

Others

Choeur de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Orchestra

Royal Opera of Wallonia Orchestra

Italian

La sonnambula -  (The Sleepwalker)

Liège

Belgium

La sonnambula Bellini

Public

The Sleepwalker

Approved

“From time immemorial, no doubt, men and women had walked in their sleep and said strange things; these behaviors had to be explained by invoking supernatural causes, evil spirits, mysterious gifts, divine or diabolical possessions: once again, a matter of defective judgments. »
Pierre Enckell

In a Swiss village in the 19th century , a mysterious specter prowls every night. When we find the beautiful Amina sleeping in the bed of Count Rodolfo, passing through Lisa's inn, she is accused of adultery. She defends herself with force. But her promised, Elvino, furious, breaks off the engagement. Will the villagers find that the wandering ghost is none other than the beautiful and innocent sleepwalker?

A few ingredients skillfully put into verse by the brilliant Felice Romani based on an argument by Eugène Scribe are enough to give Bellini's belcanto sublime wings. The touching pastoral idyll, populated by festive villagers, featuring the beautiful and tender somnambulist, Amina, diaphanous like a Chopin nocturne, could not fail to hit the mark, in 1831, when the world was passionate about strange phenomena and sleepwalking, in particular.

Intended for the stars of the stages, Giuditta Pasta and Giovanni Rubini, the masterpiece, quintessence of Bellini's vocal art and crowned with a fine lieto , a happy ending, displays a lyricism that culminates in the famous cavatina of Amina "Ah! Non credea mirarti” where the desperate heroine, unjustly accused of infidelity, believes she feels her death is near… some unforgettable notes which will appear on the tomb of Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, he who died early at the age of 34.

English

The Sleepwalker by Bellini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Jaco van Dormael, Michèle Anne De Mey,, Conductor Giampaolo Bisanti

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