Sorta, Quasi, Pseudo, Meta-Theatre and Cartwheeling Sopranos: La Sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera

Elizabeth – The Met’s revival of Bellini’s La Sonnambula has great choreography, brilliant singers and neat scenery, but the staging and some of Mary Zimmerman’s production didn’t make sense to me.  The problem started with the italicized note before the synopsis in the program.  We are told that the Met’s production is set in a contemporary… [Read More]