Vincenzo Bellini: LA SONNAMBULA [Official trailer]

Premiere on 26 Jan 2019 at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Direction and dramaturgy: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito; Stage and costumes: Anna Viebrock; With Ante Jerkunica, Helene Schneiderman, Venera Gimadieva, Jesús León, Alexandra Hutton, Andrew Harris, Jörg Schörner, chorus and orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin. Amina, a poor orphan, and Elvino, the richest farmer in the village, are looking forward to their wedding. But when Amina is caught in the room of Count Rodolfo, who has recently returned after a long absence, this idyll in the Swiss Alps collapses. Elvino breaks off the engagement and returns to Lisa, his former lover. Only when Amina appears as the village phantom, somnambulating at a vertiginous height, is her innocence clear to all. While sleep walking she was not the mistress of her senses, but once out of her trance she finds herself again the betrothed of Elvino. Bellini and his librettist, Romani, opted for lyrical, romantic material for their fifth collaboration and have