Iratxe Ansa lays claim to the choreography for the opera La Sonnambula, which premiered at the Royal Theatre in Madrid in 2022, under the leadership of stage director Bárbara Lluch and musical director Maurizio Benini.
With its lucid modern feminist touch, this two-act melodrama with music by Vicenzo Bellini received great acclaim from the Spanish audience with the extraordinary soprano Nadine Sierra as the lead performer.
Situated in the Swiss Alps, this opera confronts the people from these idyllic lands with their own meanness, once they have been thrown into the abyss of mistrust and ostracism by the uncertain shadow of a vulgar suspicion. The sleepwalking of the main character acts as a revulsive necessity to awaken everyone from this collective nightmare, while simultaneously providing a culminating moment for a poetic score which has become one of the most long-lasting and resistant icons of belcantismo.
