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Staatsoper Hannover

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Direttore d'orchestra

Andrea Sanguineti

Regia

Chris Alexander

Scenografia

Scenografia (+1)

Kathrin Kegler

Costumi

Marie-Therese Cramer

Luci

Claus Ackenhausen

Direzione del coro

Direzione del coro (+1)

Lorenzo Da Rio

Direzione del coro (+3)

Tatiana Bergh

Soprano (+1)

Ketevan Chuntishvili

Musetta

Tenore (+1)

Marco Lee

Rodolfo

Baritono (+2)

Lluís Calvet i Pey

Schaunard

Tenore (+5)

John Pickering

Benoît

Alcindoro

Tenore (+2)

Thomas Kubitza

A vendor

Opernhaus

Chorus

Children's choir of the Hanover State Opera

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Soprano

Barno Ismatullaeva

Mimi

Baritono (+3)

Darwin Prakash

Marcello

Basso (+2)

Yannick Spanier

Colline

Tenore

Antonio Fernandez Brixis

Parpignol

Basso

Woo-Jung Kim

A customs sergeant

Kiandra Howarth

Luvuyo Mbundu

Basso (+3)

Markus Suihkonen

Jae Wook Yoo

Basso (+1)

Ugur Okay

A customs officer

Valentin Kostov

Keun-Sung Yook

Luisa Mordel

After spending years in the State Theatre’s set storage, Chris Alexander’s timeless production was revived and returned to the stage in 2019. A huge success: The press attested “no expiration date” and the cast presented itself as a “company of strong voices and joyful performances” – a wonderful debut for the Italian voices in the ensemble of the Hanover State Opera.

La Bohéme presents a scenario of apparent opera magic, full of a poetry ranging between romantic cliché and the realism of bitter poverty. With unquenchable pleasure and nostalgic melancholy, opera audiences around the world have followed the tragic love story between Rodolfo, an ambitious yet unsuccessful novelist, and the simple seamstress Mimì. The unparalleled popularity of the opera and its vivid contemporary appeal are due to the incredible beauty of Puccini’s melodies. His music manages to characterise the atmosphere of the Parisian bohemia with great detail and without false sentiment. Lyrical episodes are sketched realistically and contrasted with sometimes intense, sometimes humorous, tumultuous scenes. And everything is crowned by Puccini’s “great pain in small souls”: the yearning for a little bit of happiness in real life, turned into music.

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