WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "La Sonnambula" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 1 pm, kicking off the 2025–26 season of The Met: Live in HD. 

 

This award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. The Clark broadcasts the opera in its Manton Research Center auditorium.

 

According to a press release:

 

Following triumphant Met turns in "Roméo et Juliette," "La Traviata," and "Lucia di Lammermoor," 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 returns after his acclaimed 2023 Met debut in "L'Elisir d'Amore," co-starring 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.

 

To complement the broadcast, the Clark's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts a pop-up exhibition of works related to the theme of dreams and sleep. The selected prints, drawings, and photographs all engage with that mysterious state of being between consciousness and unconsciousness, reason and fantasy. The free pop-up display is on view from 11 am to 1 pm on Oct. 18, prior to the broadcast of La Sonnambula.

 

Tickets $25 ($22 members, $18 college students, $5 children 17 and under). Advance registration encouraged; capacity is limited. To purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu/events or call the box office at 413 458 0524. No refunds.