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The Metropolitan Opera Opera Film La Sonnambula in Beijing

Date: Jan 20 - 1:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 60 yuan

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered - by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiance - asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everything ends happily. Natalie Dessay as Amina and Juan Diego Florez as Elvino deliver bel canto magic and vocal fireworks in Mary Zimmerman's 2009 production. The Tony Award-winning director transfers Bellini's bucolic tale to a rehearsal room in contemporary New York, where an opera company rehearses La Sonnambula - and where the singers are truly in love with each other.

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