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Amina's upcoming wedding to Elvino is thrown into disarray after she's caught in the room of Count Rodolfo. Elvino abandons her in a jealous rage, and it's only when she subsequently sleepwalks across a mill roof that he realises her innocence. Nadine Sierra and Xabier Anduaga sing the troubled couple, with Riccardo Frizza conducting. A performance from October 2025, presented from the Met by Debra Lew Harder and Ira Siff. Bellini: La Sonnambula Amina ..... Nadine Sierra (soprano) Elvino ..... Xabier Anduaga (tenor) Lisa ..... Sydney Mancasola (soprano) Rodolfo ..... Alexander Vinogradov (bass) Alessio ..... Nicolas Newton (bass-baritone) Notary ..... Scott Scully (tenor) Teresa ..... Deborah Nansteel (mezzo-soprano) Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra Riccardo Frizza (conductor) Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works