Watch the whole production of La Sonnambula: www.medici.tv/#!/la-sonnambula-bellini-dessay Subscribe to our channel for more videos ow.ly/ugONZ Excerpt from a live webcast of the opera on medici.tv - 15 Feb 2010 La Sonnambula Melodrama in two acts (1831) Music by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) Libretto of Felice Romani, based on the ballet "La Somnambule" by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer sung in Italian In this elegiac universe, the arias sung by Amina, the kind-hearted young sleep-walker, are pure miracles of lunar poetry. For the first time at the Paris Opera Natalie Dessay sings one of the most beautiful roles of Italian romanticism. Evelino Pidò, Conductor Marco Arturo Marelli, Stage Director sets and lighting Dagmar Niefind, Costumes Patrick Marie Aubert, Chorus Master André Diot, Lighting (after the original lighting by Charles Edwards) Michele PertusiIl, Conte Rodolfo Cornelia Oncioiu, Teresa Natalie Dessay, Amina Javier Camarena, Elvino Marie-Adeline Henry, Lisa Nahuel Di Pierro, Alessio Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus Coproduction with the Staatsoper Wien and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres Directed by Don Kent A production Idéale Audience, in coproduction with the Opéra national de Paris, France Télévisions, NHK and Mezzo