Organization

Stage director

Franco Zeffirelli

Costume designer

Marcel Escoffier

Set designer

Singer

Baritone

Martin Häßler

Schaunard

Libretto

Giuseppe Giacosa

Luigi Illica

Bass

Marcus Pelz

Benoît

Alcindoro

Conductor

Bertrand de Billy

Soprano

Anna Netrebko

Mimi

Eleonora Buratto

Tenor

Vittorio Grigolo

Rodolfo

George Petean

Marcello

Günther Groissböck

Colline

Nina Minasyan

Musetta

Saimir Pirgu

Wiener Staatsoper

Orchestra

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Others

Chor der Wiener Staatsoper

Italian

La bohème

Vienna

Austria

La bohème: La bohème Puccini

Public

La Bohème

German

English

Approved

The literary model for »La Bohème«, which premiered in Turin in 1896 under Arturo Toscanini, is the highly successful episodic novel by French author Henri Murger. In it, composer Giacomo Puccini rediscovered the atmosphere of his own blissfully nostalgic years as a student: »Here I found everything I was looking for and loved: origin, youth, passion, humour, tears shed in secret, and love that brings joy and sorrow.« Together with his librettists, he condensed the loose sequence of pictures of the original plot to a two-hour play and created tangible character portraits of his young Parisian urban heroes, whom he then had act in social settings that were precisely outlined by music, thus lending sound to all the facets of the material. The story of the terminally ill Mimì, who is allowed to experience the happiness a great love brings in the midst of poverty and illness, soon became a staple on international repertoires. The same is true for Vienna: the opera has been performed roughly a thousand times at the State Opera and is thus one of the most successful works ever. With Armenian soprano Ruzan Mantashyan and Brazilian tenor Atalla Ayan, a new generation of singers has now entered the stage – and is a fresh take on Franco Zeffirelli's classic, image-packed production.

La bohème by Puccini, From (2022/2022), Directed by Franco Zeffirelli,, Conductor Bertrand de Billy, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria

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