Previous posts for November 3rd are here: Vladimir Ussachevsky; Vincenzo Bellini (2019), Samuel Scheidt (2020), and Jake Shimabukuro (2022)
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Vincenzo Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835)was an important Italian opera composer.
Three Thoughts on La Sonnambula
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everything ends happily. -- metopera.org
(1) Shhh...!
For a listener, it’s asking a lot
When the hair-raising hinge of the plot
Concerns peasants talking
About a girl walking,
And whether she’s sleeping or not.
(2) Multi-Tasking
Amina, though sleeping, is shrill
As she crosses the bridge of the mill.
She does it while singing,
But her proper upbringing
Precludes her from taking a spill.
(3) Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
A soprano who walks in her sleep!
As a twist in the plot, it seems cheap!
But the ploy is so vital
That it’s there in the title, —
(Your reaction may be “What the bleep!”)
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