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Vincenzo Bellini's opera in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani. Music Director: Enrique Mazzola. Stage Director and Designer: Pier Luigi Pizzi
Chorus Master: Valery Borisov. Choreographer: Ekaterina Mironova. After its long absence, sinse 1892, La Sonnambula is returned to the Bolshoi by the illustrious director and scenographer Pier Luigi Pizzi, known for his baroque and bel canto opera productions. Pier Luigi Pizzi belongs to the same glorious ranks of outstanding Italian theatre people as Giorgio Strehler, Franco Zeffirelli and Luca Ronconi, while his creative range embraces the entire history of opera — from the baroque to the present day. Pizzi did not immediately take up the profession of director, starting off as scenographer and costume designer. Today he brilliantly combines all three professions. And remarkably, though he has a simply incredible number of romantic operas to his credit, this was to be his first Sonnambula.
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