| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 15 min.)) : sound, color |
| Playing Time |
021500 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Note |
Melodrama (opera) in two acts; libretto by Felice Romani, based on La somnambule, ou, L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur by Eugène Scribe. |
| Performer |
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 de l'Opéra de Paris ; Chœurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Patrick Marie Aubert, chorus master ; Evelino Pidò, conductor. |
| Event |
Recorded 2010 February 15 Opéra Bastille, Paris, France. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language |
Sung in Italian. |
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Operas.
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Operas. |
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Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Kent, Don, film director.
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Romani, Felice, 1788-1865, librettist.
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Dessay, Natalie, 1965- singer.
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Pertusi, Michele, singer.
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Oncioiu, Cornelia, singer.
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Camarena, Javier, singer.
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Henry, Marie-Adeline, singer.
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Di Pierro, Nahuel, 1984- singer.
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Galli, Claudia, singer.
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Wall, Anna, singer.
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Aubert, Patrick Marie, conductor.
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Pidò, Evelino, conductor.
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Based on (work): Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861.
Somnambule.
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Container of (work): Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.
Sonnambula.
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Idéale Audience International, production company.
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Opéra national de Paris, production company.
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Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai, production company.
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Mezzo (Television station : Paris, France), production company.
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Opéra de Paris. Orchestre, instrumentalist.
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Opéra de Paris. Chœur, singer.
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