Name: La Bohème
Start: 2022-08-10
End: 2022-08-10
Location: Gardens

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Yaritza Véliz

Mimi

Gabriella Reyes

Tenor

Long Long

Rodolfo

David Junghoon Kim

Vuvu Mpofu

Musetta

Mariam Battistelli

Baritone

Daniel Scofield

Marcello

Adrian Timpau

Luthando Qave

Schaunard

Luvuyo Mbundu

Bass

Ivo Stánchev

Colline

Stage director

Floris Visser

Conductor

Jordan de Souza

Lighting designer

Alex Brok

Costume designer

Jon Morrell

Set designer

Dieuweke van Reij

Choreographer

Pim Veulings

Dramaturge

Klaus Bertisch

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne

Italian

La Bohème

United Kingdom

Glyndebourne Festival

Gardens

La bohème Puccini

Private

Public

English

Approved

Opera expert Alexandra Coghlan explores Puccini’s La bohème. Not only one of opera’s greatest tragic love stories, the opera is also an homage to the creative and romantic life of one of the world’s great cities: Paris.

Along the way Alexandra talks to historian Prof. Joan DeJean to discuss what it is about Paris that has inspired so many artists; director Floris Visser reveals his vision for the opera; and actor Simon Callow tells us more about the bohemian spirit.

When seamstress Mimì meets the struggling writer Rodolfo they are instantly drawn together. But while Paris is a magical city of love, it’s also a very real place of hardship as the two young Bohemians and their friends soon discover, when not just jealousy but poverty and sickness tear them apart.

In La bohème Puccini created an opera in which ordinary people are elevated to the level of the extraordinary, the tragic, the timeless – transformed by a score that has seduced generations of audiences. Conversational and familiar, atmospheric and emotionally amplified, La bohème paints the complexity of human relationships in all their many shades, framing them with wonderfully vivid, bustling scenes of Parisian life. Comedy and tragedy are woven tightly together in an irresistible flow of melody and drama.

La Bohème by Puccini, Wed 10 Aug 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Floris Visser,, Conductor Jordan de Souza, Gardens, Glyndebourne, United Kingdom

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