ALAMEDA — Vincenzo Bellini’s operas are almost as well known for the grisly murders they depict as for his long flowing melodic lines. “La Sonnambula,” which Island City Opera is performing in the ...

From the sound of the vociferous boos that greeted Zimmerman and her production team in their one curtain call on opening night, the Met audience isn't buying this cost-saver. At first glance, Mary ...

It's a shame that Bellini wasn't Donizetti--because the story of LA SONNAMBULA seems to be begging for the full comic treatment and could have been a great companion to L'ELISIR D'AMORE. (I'm not sure ...

Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...

Set your sights on a pastoral village in the Dolomites during the early 1920s — a far cry from the Arcadian scene pictured by composer Vincenzo Bellini in his melodrama “La Sonnambula” (The ...

The Washington Concert Opera probably didn't mean to show up the Washington National Opera when it scheduled Bellini's "La Sonnambula" on Sunday afternoon at Lisner Auditorium, the day after the WNO ...