Name: La Bohème
Start: 2024-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Oper Halle (Saale)

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Franziska Krötenheerdt

Musetta

Conductor

Fabrice Bollon

Stage director

Walter Sutcliffe

Set designer

Jon Bausor

Costume designer

Chorus master

Frank Flade

Baritone

Andreas Beinhauer

Marcello

Michael Zehe

Schaunard

Bass

Ki-Hyun Park

Colline

Gerd Vogel

Benoît

Alcindoro

Tenor

Sebastian Byzdra

Parpignol

Oper Halle

Dramaturge

Boris Kehrmann

Anastasiia Doroshenko

Mimi

José Miguel Esandi

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Halle

Others

Chor der Oper Halle

Kinder- & Jugendchor der Oper Halle

Lighting designer

Wolfgang Göbbel

Chulhyun Kim

Rodolfo

Kristian Giesecke

Vanessa Waldhart

Till Voß

A customs officer

Peter Zenner

Florian Marignol

Hwa Young Chun

A customs sergeant

Mathias Schulze

Italian

La Bohème

Halle (Saale)

Germany

Oper Halle (Saale)

Großer Saal

La Bohème Puccini

Public

German

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Premiere: 09.03.2024

Ich habe mein Leben lang darüber nachgedacht, wie es wäre, wenn ich »La bohème« inszenieren würde. Jetzt tue ich es. Als ich die Produktion vorbereitete, erkannte ich: Das ist kein Stück, das man inszeniert. Es inszeniert dich.
Normalerweise heißt es, Wagner habe das Gesamtkunstwerk geschaffen. Mir scheint: »La bohème« ist Gesamtkunstwerk in viel umfassenderem Sinne. Puccinis musikalische Regie führt Gefühle und Gesten so zwingend, dass man das Werk zerstören würde, würde man ihr nicht folgen. Bei Wagner gibt es viele kreative Spielräume zwischen Schwarz und Weiß, in »La bohème« ist jeder Gang, jede Geste durch die Musik vorgeschrieben.
Das hat mich zu einer – hoffentlich – tragfähigen Konzeption gebracht. Wir werden der von Puccini festgelegten Realität dieser Musik entsprechen. Darüber hinaus enthält sie aber noch etwas Anderes. Die Herausforderung besteht für mich, die Darsteller*innen und das Publikum darin, sich diesem Anderen zu stellen. Das Stück konfrontiert uns von Anfang an mit dem Tod. Es ist eine Konfrontation mit der Endlichkeit, der Abwesenheit von Bedeutung, dem Nichts. Die Autoren, ihre Figuren, aber auch diejenigen, die sie zum Leben erwecken, stellen sich hier ihrer tiefsten Angst: derjenigen, dass das alles keinen Sinn hat.

»La bohème« konfrontiert uns nicht nur mit unserer Todesangst, sondern präziser mit der Sinnlosigkeit allen Tuns. Darin liegt meiner Meinung nach die Tiefe dieses großen Werks. (Walter Sutcliffe)

Deutsch

Six young people make their way through life with precarious work: poet Rodolfo works at the newspaper and dreams of breaking through as a playwright. Marcello paints advertisements on house walls. Philosopher Colline makes a living from private lessons. Musician Schaunard strums his way through the bars. Mimì embroiders flowers onto decorative ribbons. Musetta keeps solvent lovers.
Puccini's opera tells of youth. Everyone starts out full of illusions. Some make their dream come true. And then this: Mimì is terminally ill. Rodolfo falls in love with her. But after the party comes the reality: How do you live with a dying person? We avoid death, failure. But sooner or later reality catches up with us. »La bohème« tells of relationships and our encounter with death. This is what our new production focuses on.

Walter Sutcliffe: »I've thought all my life about what it would be like if I directed “La bohème”. Now I do. When I was preparing the production, I realized: This is not a play that you stage. It stages you. It is usually said that Wagner created the total work of art. It seems to me: “La bohème” is a total work of art in a much broader sense. Puccini's musical direction directs feelings and gestures so compellingly that not following it would destroy the work. In Wagner there is a lot of creative scope between black and white, in “La bohème” every walk, every gesture is dictated by the music. This led me to a – hopefully – viable concept. We will correspond to the reality of this music set by Puccini. But beyond that it contains something else. The challenge for me, the actors and the audience is to face this other. The play confronts us with death from the beginning. It is a confrontation with finitude, the absence of meaning, nothingness. The authors, their characters, but also those who bring them to life face their deepest fear: the one that it all has no meaning. “La bohème” confronts us not only with our fear of death, but more precisely with the meaninglessness of all our actions. In my opinion, this is where the depth of this great work lies.«

In collaboration with theHalle Art AssociationWe include current artists from Halle: six of them accompany the production and deal with the themes of the opera.Your works can be seen in the Opera Café from March 9, 2024 until the end of the season.

English

La Bohème by Puccini, Sun 10 Nov 2024, From (2024/2025), Directed by Walter Sutcliffe,, Conductor Fabrice Bollon, José Miguel Esandi, Oper Halle (Saale), Halle (Saale), Germany

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