La Sonnambula is definitely one of those operas that rely much on the prima donna for a successful staging. Natalie Dessay has sung the role of Amina before. She looked charming on stage and her small and slim built was also convincing for the character. Vocally she was still agile but the voice lost some quality when subjected to pressure.
The music and individual performances are exceptional. Natalie Dessay soars like an ethereal angel in all of her set pieces And the duets with Florez are particular moving and intimate. Music like this needs no costume or background. Its sheer beauty stands alone. Juan Diego Florez looks the every inch swaggering N Y Latino in his leather jacket.Buy Bellini: La Sonnambula (DVD) (2010) by Natalie Dessay from Amazon's Movies Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.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 the night falls. This opera by Bellini is a score written in daydream where melody seems to be suspended in time and the heroine's very soul rises to the surface.
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On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with Juan Diego Florez’s performance of Elvino. Smooth as silk, loving, the voice easily produced (even more-so transposed down so there’s never a hint of shouting or over-extending the basic tone), mellow but gleaming when necessary, his singing in the duets is even more glorious than in his big solo.
EVELINO Pido directs Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez and Michele Pertusi in another screening from The Metropolitan Opera.
In his latest Decca DVD release, bel canto star Juan Diego Florez undertakes the role of Elvino in Bellini's romantic drama, playing opposite the mercurial French soprano, Natalie Dessay, in the MET's striking, modern-dress production from March 2009.
First that it is the first recording collaboration of Cecilia Bartoli and Juan Diego Florez. That is undeniable, although there was talk for a time of collaboration in a possible recording of Rossini’s La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie).
Tenor Juan Diego Florez in the role of Elvino, right, on bed, sings with soprano Natalie Dessay as Amina during the final dress rehearsal of Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula, Friday, Feb. 27. 2009 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
And I would say that of Natalie.” Dessay will be in New York for two months this spring for “La Sonnambula,” staying at an apartment on the West Side, which she bought a little more than a.
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It has helped that singers who have had success in the main parts on stage or on record tend to be larger than life - such as Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and more recently star singers such as Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez.