La Sonnambula

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2 November 2011

Marco Arturo Marelli’s 2002 production of La Sonnambula certainly merits its present revival. Set in a “hotel or sanatorium in the Swiss Alps”, its elegant nineteenth-century design is composed of stony surfaces and wrought metal fittings which provide a cold, pale sheen in accord with the ‘snow‘ outside its walls. It is a sterile, insular world where an idle society is forever prying into the affairs of the central romantic characters. The chorus realises this excellently, with a somewhat unsettling, enforced collective gaiety throughout.

While the production is largely convincing, it has certain arbitrary elements. For example, the only apparent signifier of a sanatorium is a chorus member in a wheelchair, and there is little indication of mental illness among the characters, unless we count Amina’s sleepwalking in the context of nineteenth century psychology. (But the premise of the plot is that nobody knows what sleepwalking ...

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