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Singer

Soprano

Tatiana Monogarova

Mimi

Eleonora Buratto

Nathalie Manfrino

Musetta

Olga Kulchynska

Tenor

Matthew Polenzani

Rodolfo

Saimir Pirgu

Baritone

Artur Rucinski

Marcello

Gabriel Bermúdez

David Menéndez

Schaunard

Isaac Galán

Bass

Paul Gay

Colline

Anatoli Sivko

Fernando Latorre

Benoît

Alcindoro

Conductor

Marc Piollet

Stage director

Jonathan Miller

Set designer

Isabelle Bywater

Costume designer

Isabella Bywater

Lighting designer

Jean Kalman

Choreographer

Gran Teatre del Liceu

La Bohème

Barcelona

Spain

Sala Miralls

Puccini's La bohème, one of the world's most famous verismo operas, in a traditional production by Jonathan Miller, full of realism, inspired by the photographs of Brassaï and Cartier-Bresson from the 1930s. Marc Piollet conducts the Liceu Orchestra in a Bohème that stands out for the excellence of its cast: in the role of Mimì, Eleonora Buratto, and in that of Musetta, Olga Kluchynska, winner of the 2015 edition of the Tenor Viñas Competition. The group of bohemians is led by tenor Saimir Pirgu as Rodolfo, and Marcello by baritone Gabriel Bermúdez.

The love story between Rodolfo, the poet, and the sweet Mimì, a neighbouring embroiderer, sets the pace of the work, which is set in Paris in 1830, a hundred years before Miller's wager. In the Latin Quartier, a group of bohemians, including the protagonist, with his companions Marcello, Schaunard and Colline, live in a garret in the cold and hunger, unable to pay the rent. The counterpoint to the protagonist couple, who are torn between jealousy and fear of the girl's illness, are the couple Marcello, a painter, and Musetta, a femme fatale who ends up helping Mimì in difficult times. The opera features great musical moments, such as the famous Act I aria "Che gelida manina", in which Rodolfo warms the hand of a helpless Mimì who has come to the artists' house to ask for matches. After the poet introduces himself in "Chi son? Sono un poeta", it is the girl's turn to sing "Mi chiamano Mimì", a page full of tenderness that reflects the idealism that surrounds the plot.

La bohème Puccini

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