La bohème

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Giacomo Puccini: La bohème

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La bohème

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A new bohème for Bjørvika Puccini's La bohème is one of the world's most performed operas - and a cornerstone in the history of Nasjonaloperaen. Generation after generation, audiences have been swept away by the love story between Rodolfo and Mimì. Long live the bohemian life In every age, young people have lived as though they were immortal. Step into the eternal world of the bohemians - in R. B. Schlather's new version of Puccini's classic. We meet the young poet Rodolfo and his neighbour Mimì, who fall in love at first sight. Together with their friends Marcello, Colline and Schaunard, they live the bohemian life on the fringes of society. Through art, friendship and love, they create a space where reality is kept out. Immortal classic “People die and governments change, but the music of La bohème will live for ever.” So wrote the inventor Thomas Edison to the composer Giacomo Puccini. In La bohème, Puccini lets the music live and breathe with the people on stage - in the long lines of “O soave fanciulla”, where Mimì and Rodolfo fall in love and time almost stands still, in Musetta's lightly strolling waltz “Quando me’n vo’”, and in the deafening silence when the breath ceases and death occurs. When Victoria Randem last sang the title role in Stefan Herheim's Den lure revens eventyr (The Cunning Little Vixen), the press responded with standing ovations - and a Hedda Award for best stage performance in musical theatre. She has previously sung Musetta in La bohème at Staatsoper Berlin - now we meet her for the first time as Mimì. The opera is based on Henri Murger's stories Scènes de la vie de bohème (1845–49). It is especially the episodic form of Murger's depictions of young artistic life in Paris that has inspired Schlather's staging. Puccini completed the score in 1895, and the opera had its premiere the following year in Turin. It was conducted by Arturo Toscanini - who would later become one of the world's most famous conductors. Free introduction one hour before the performance Artistic team and performers Music Giacomo Puccini Libretto Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Musical direction Jordan de Souza / Peter Szilvay Director R. B. Schlather Set design Anna Kirsch Costume design Terese Wadden Lighting design Adam Silverman Movement director Skye Bronfenbrenner Operakoret, Barnekoret and Operaorkestret Mimi Victoria Randem/Ruzan Mantashyan Musetta Frøy Hovland Holtbakk/Katarina Zorec Rodolfo Andrei Danilov/Carlos Cardoso Marcello Audun Iversen/Luthando Qave Schaunard Jóhann Kristinsson/David Höfel Colline Markus Suihkonen/Johannes Nikolai Aas Benoît Marek Lipok/Stephan Adriaens Parpignol Ørjan Bruskeland Hinna/Eusebiu Cristea