by Robert Boyd | Dec 22, 2017 | 2018 Season, La Sonnambula, Past Production
Jonathan Khuner: Music Director for La Sonnambula Jonathan Khuner returns to Island City Opera as Music Director for Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Jonathan Khuner is a well-known conductor in the San Francisco Bay area, where he has spent most of his...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 16, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain, La Sonnambula, News
The Sleepwalker Who Wasn’t There: Writing and Rewriting La sonnambula An old saw in the world of writing has it that “There is no writing—just rewriting”. Composer Vincenzo Bellini and librettist Felice Romani found this to be abundantly so in the twisting tale of how...
by Robert Boyd | Oct 21, 2017 | Behind Curtain, La Sonnambula
Known as the “Swan of Catania” (his birthplace in Italy), Bellini produced an incredible body of work during a much too short life. His operas Norma, La sonnambula, I puritani, Anna Bolena, and I Capuleti ed I Montecchi continue to hold the stage almost 200 years...
