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After its premiere, the opera was performed in London on 28 July 1831 at the King’s Theatre and in New York on 13 November 1835 at the Park Theatre. [10] Herbert Weinstock provides a comprehensive year-by-year listing of performances following the premiere and then, with some gaps, all the way up to 1900.
French ballet-pantomime La somnambule, ou l’arrivée d’un nouveau Seigneur (1827) music by Ferdinand Hérold, scenario by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer. Premieres First performance: Milan (Teatro Carcano), 6 March 1831. First UK performance: London (King’s Theatre, Haymarket), 28 July 1831.
La sonnambula. Music Vincenzo Bellini. Opera in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani. World Premiere: Teatro Carcano, Milan, March 6, 1831. First performance at Teatro Costanzi: May 14, 1881.
La Sonnambula is a story of true love thwarted by jealousy then joyously restored, among peasants so unsophisticated they believe ghost stories but have never heard of sleepwalking. The urbane Milanese observed this with the proper degree of
Metropolitan Opera Premiere, New Production La Sonnambula Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, November 14, 1883
La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.
Plot summary from La Sonnambula: Opera from Vincenzo Bellini. . Libretto from Felice Romani. Premiere 6 March 1831, Milan (Teatro Carcano)
