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Tenor

Stephen Costello

Rodolfo

Piero Pretti

Baritone

Joan Martín-Royo

Schaunard

Manel Esteve Madrid

Bass

José Manuel Zapata

Benoît

Soprano

Anita Hartig

Mimi

Yolanda Auyanet

Etienne Dupuis

Marcello

Alessandro Luongo

Mika Kares

Colline

Fernando Radó

Roberto Accurso

Alcindoro

Joyce El-Khoury

Musetta

Carmen Romeu

Conductor

Paolo Carignani

Stage director

Richard Jones

Julia Burbach

Set designer

Stewart Laing

Lighting designer

Mimi Jordan Sherin

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Ana González

Assistant Director

José Darío Innella

Elaine Kidd

Teatro Real de Madrid

La Bohème

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real

Starting from the book Scenes of Bohemian Life,by Henri Murger (1882-1861), born as a series of autobiographical stories published in the form of a folletín, the two librettists, always zealously directed by Puccini, built a choral libretto, in which four young bohemian artists overcome economic difficulties and inclement weather with humor and enthusiasm, looking for its place in an effervescent, bustling and winter Paris.

The tragic love story between one of them, Rodolfo, an aspiring poet, and the tailor Mimì, whose death, inexorable, surprises them, articulates a kind of initiatory path that dismisses the debauchery and dreams of youth and reveals real life, with all its forcefulness and transcendence.
With his brilliant orchestral palette, his mastery of prosody and his enormous dramatic talent, Puccini is building the personality of young people with his characteristic ability to articulate the most anecdotal and funny flashes of the everyday with the deepest, most passionate and captivating feelings. Thus, he intertwines his short phrases "of conversation" with others of enormous melodic and dramatic breath. Its orchestration suggests, with enormous timbral efficiency, from details as trivial as the meandering of the flames or the tinkling of the coins, to the almost cinematographic 'settings' of the desangelada attic, the bustle of Christmas Paris, or the loneliness and deprivations of poverty.

La bohème Puccini

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