Bellini: La sonnambula

This performance of Bellini’s lovely opera from Sardinia has a superb Amina in Eglise Gutierrez, the finest since Callas, but the rest of the cast, and the production, is merely provincial. Michael Tanner
 

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3

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:37 pm

COMPOSERS: Bellini
LABELS: Dynamic
WORKS: La sonnambula
PERFORMER: Alaimo, Gutierrez, Colecchia; Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Chorus & O/Maurizio Benini; dir. De Ana (Cagliari, 2008)
CATALOGUE NO: Dynamic 33616

This performance of Bellini’s lovely opera from Sardinia has a superb Amina in Eglise Gutierrez, the finest since Callas, but the rest of the cast, and the production, is merely provincial. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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