Name: La Bohème
Start: 2022-12-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-12-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Alžběta Poláčková

Mimi

Petra Šimková

Tenor

Fabián Lara

Rodolfo

Matteo Desole

Remus Alăzăroae

Vera Talerko

Musetta

Jana Sibera

Baritone

Pavol Kubán

Marcello

Jiří Brückler

Lukáš Bařák

Schaunard

Jiří Rajniš

Bass

Miloš Horák

Colline

Edgars Ošleja

Ivo Hrachovec

Roman Vocel

Benoît

Jan Ježek

Alcindoro

Jan Ondráček

Parpignol

Ondřej Socha

Libor Novák

A customs sergeant

Dalibor Pavelka

Andrey Styrkul

A customs officer

Alexander Laptěv

Stage director

Ondřej Havelka

Conductor

Karl Heinz Steffens

Jiří Štrunc

Costume designer

Jana Zbořilová

Set designer

Martin Černý

Choreographer

Jana Hanušová

Dramaturge

Jitka Slavíková

Chorus master

Adolf Melichar

Andriy Yurkevych

Jiří Chvála

Kateřina Kněžíková

Petr Jirsa

A vendor

Valdimar Hilmarsson

Francesco Castoro

Liudmyla Korsun

Marie Fajtová

National Theatre Prague

State Opera

Others

State Opera Chorus

Orchestra

State Opera Orchestra

Kühn Children's Choir

The State Opera Chorus

italiensk

La Bohème

Prague

Czech Republic

Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

La bohème Puccini

Public

tjekkisk

engelsk

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Puccini’s La bohème is one of the most frequently staged operas worldwide. The composer was inspired by the Paris-based painter and writer Henry Murger’s book Scènes de la vie de bohème, which since its publication in 1851 had enjoyed great popularity, and he immediately sensed the enormous dramatic potential in the work. Giacomo Puccini entrusted the text to the librettists and playwrights Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, whom he held in great esteem; their collaboration ranks among the most successful in the history of opera – up there with that between W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, or Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The first opera Puccini, Giacosa and Illica worked on together was La bohème, followed by Tosca and Madama Butterfly. It ended with Giacosa’s death in 1906.
La bohème premiered on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. The opera’s seeming levity, in stark contrast to the then predominant Wagnerism, confused the audience and the critics alike, with the result being a lukewarm response to the first night. Two months later, however, its performance in Palermo was a triumph, and the piece has been a blockbuster ever since. In La bohème – just as later on in Madama Butterfly and Turandot – Puccini brought to bear his mastery in musical rendering of the local colour. The State Opera production, featuring sets by Martin Černý and costumes by Jana Zbořilová, is directed by Ondřej Havelka. Amidst an evocative picture of Paris at the end of the 19th century he unfolds the story of four young artists for whom friendship is more than a mere word.

English

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Medvirkende

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