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Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Royal Opera House Muscat

Dirección orquestal

Marco Armiliato

Dirección de escena

Dirección de escena (+3)

Jean-Louis Grinda

Escenografía

Diseño de vestuario (+3)

Rudy Sabounghi

Diseño de vestuario

Diseño de vestuario (+1)

David Belugou

Iluminación

Iluminación (+2)

Laurent Castaingt

Dirección coral

Dirección orquestal (+3)

Stefano Visconti

Tenor (+3)

Yusif Eyvazov

Rodolfo

Barítono (+5)

Florian Sempey

Marcello

Barítono (+3)

Biagio Pizzuti

Schaunard

Bajo (+3)

Giorgi Manoshvili

Colline

Barítono (+2)

Fabrice Alibert

Benoît

Bajobarítono (+12)

Matteo Peirone

Alcindoro

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Chorus

Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Chœur d'enfants de l'Académie de musique Rainier III

Grimaldi Forum

Soprano (+5)

Anna Netrebko

Mimì

Soprano (+1)

Nino Machaidze

Musetta

Soprano (+3)

Mariam Battistelli

When Giacomo Puccini turned to Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, who had collaborated fruitfully with him on the libretto of Manon Lescaut shortly before, he struggled with turning into a convincing structure the Scènes de la vie de bohème, written 45 years earlier by the French literary realist Henry Murger (1822-1861). When the completed opera was finally premiered in Torino in 1896, it even received unfavourable reviews in spite of Toscanini’s conducting.

To us, the four short acts of La bohème feel well balanced, their mixture of lightness, exuberance, lyricism, true feeling and heart-rendering sadness perfect. The orchestral writing is colourful but always to the point, the sung parts conversationally natural but interspersed with some of the most memorable tunes in opera history. Today, we are still moved profoundly by the naive youthfulness of Puccini’s characters, who are doomed but blessed with short moments of innocent bliss.

These performances of La bohème will be interpreted by a glamorous cast headed by Anna Netrebko as Mimì.

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