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Sonnambula

 

A village is haunted by a phantom when darkness falls, but Rodolfo, the long-lost son of the count has just returned to the village, and he realises that rather than a phantom, this mystery figure is in fact a young woman, Amina, walking in her sleep. She enters Rodolfo's room and falls asleep on his sofa. That day had been Amina's betrothal procession to Elvino, yet when he finds her sleeping in Rodolfo's room, he is certain that she has been unfaithful. Only Teresa, Amina's foster-mother, believes in her innocence. They ask Rodolfo to attest to this and he sends a message confirming her innocence, but Elviro does not trust this, and takes back the ring. He decides to marry Lisa instead, who he was betrothed to in the past. Just before they go to the church, Rodolfo tries to stop them, explaining that Amina is a somnanbulist, a sleepwalker, but Elvino refuses to listen. Amina falls back into a deep sleep, and plagued by grief at Elvino's rejection she begins walking a high, unstable bridge. Now convinced that she has been telling the truth, and was in fact just sleepwalking, when she reaches the other side of the bridge Elvino calls to her, and she wakes up in his arms.