met Opera Live in HD – La Sonnambula

18 OCT 2025: The MET LIVE IN HD season 2025-26 opens on October 18 with Bellini's romantic opera LA SONNAMBULA, directed by Rolando Villazón

Clasart Classic brings the new season of The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series to German and Austrian cinemas. The season opens on October 18 with Bellini's romantic opera La Sonnambula, directed by Rolando Villazón and starring coloratura soprano Nadine Sierra and the rising Spanish tenor star Xabier Anduaga.

Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón – the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director – retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.

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Composer Vincenzo Bellini
Original title La Sonnambula
Orchestra / Band The Metropolitan Opera
Conductor Riccardo Frizza
Choir The Metropolitan Opera
Stage Director Rolando Villazón
Soloists Nadine Sierra, Sydney Mancasola, Xabier Anduaga, Alexander Vinogradov