Tiroler Festspiele - Bellini: La sonnambula (konzertant)

Four years before Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor premiered, Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula hit the stage. The formula for success is the same: great love, jealousy, and beautiful music. However, this is a semi-serious subject. Even though the situation seems hopeless in the end (the title heroine is caught in nighttime escapades), madness and death as the conclusion of the plot are out of the question. For in truth, everything is quite harmless, and the lovers are united on Earth rather than in Heaven.