La Sonnambula

La Sonnambula is an idillic classical and intense melodramma with an extremely fine lyrical musicality and tense with pure canto suspended between Arcadia and Romanticism It is a combination of tender and melancholic sentiments and of tragic and moving passion in a natural uncontaminated and innocent atmosphere and humanity which clearly represent the artistic experience of the composer The charming staging by Hugo de Ana at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari goes back to January 2007 Through fascinating tableaux vivants references to 17th century Romantic painting and refined visual projections it is a tribute to Luchino Visconti Visconti produced the memorabile performance of Sonnambula in March at the Scala di Milano with the magnificant Maria Callas