Supported by:
Conductors I Nicola Luisotti y Luis Miguel Méndez Stage Director I Richard Jones
Ruggero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini both composed - almost simultaneously - their respective versions of La bohème. The episodic nature of the literary source of these works –Scènes of la vie bohéme by Henri Murger was originally published in a literary magazine. It allowed both authors to put together very different librettos with one characteristic in common: both are a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community of young artists in an idealized Paris of the 1840s. However, whereas for the composer of Pagliacci , Murger’s scenes of Bohemian life were replicated in the cocktail of infidelities and jealousies that had brought him the success of his most emblematic piece, Puccini tempered the verista aspects of the story by transforming his opera into an everlasting ode to youth with a final and bitter nod to its inevitable impermanence. The production by Richard Jones, which we remember from the 2017-2018 season, approaches this ≪ indestructible title ≫ with a respect for tradition, but taking its distance. The audience watches the stage hands shift scenery, perhaps in keeping with a Puccini who set aside raw verismo in order to preserve, as if wrapped in amber, a piece of reality.
Opera in four acts
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger
Premiere at the Teatro Regio of Turín, February 1, 1896
Premiere at the Teatro Real, February 17, 1900
Production by the Teatro Real, in coproduction with the Royal Opera House of London and the Lyric Opera of Chicago
ARTISTIC TEAM
Conductors I Nicola Luisotti - 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29 dic; 2* jan
I Luis Miguel Méndez - 30 dic; 3, 4 jan
Stage Director I Richard Jones
Set Design and Costumes I Stewart Laing
Lighting I Mimi Jordan Sherin
Choreography I Sarah Fahie
Chorus Conductor I Andrés Máspero
Director Children’s Chorus I Ana González
Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intermezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)
Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM
CAST
Rodolfo I Michael Fabiano - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26; 2*, 4 ene
| Joshua Guerrero - 13, 16, 19, 27, 29, 30 dic
I Francesco Demuro - 3 ene
Schaunard I Joan Martín-Royo - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26, 29 dic; 2* ene
I Manel Esteve - 13, 16, 19, 27, 30 dic
| Gabriel Bermúdez 3, 4 ene
Benoît I Vicenç Esteve - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26; 2*, 4 ene
I Pablo García López - 13, 16, 19, 27, 29, 30 dic; 3 ene
Mimì I Ermonela Jaho - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26; 2* ene
I Eleonora Buratto - 13, 16, 19, 27, 29, 30 dic
| Ailyn Pérez - 3, 4 ene
Marcello I Lucas Meachem - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26; 2* ene
I Andrzej Filonczyk - 13, 16, 19, 27, 29, 30 dic
| Javier Franco - 3, 4 ene
Colline I Krzysztof Baczyk - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26, 29 dic; 2*, 4 ene
I Soloman Howard - 13, 16, 19, 27, 30 dic; 3 ene
Alcindoro I Roberto Accurso
Musetta I Ruth Iniesta - 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26; 2* ene
I Raquel Lojendio - 13, 16, 19, 27, 29, 30 dic; 3, 4 ene
*Performance cancelled due to the health situation caused by COVID-19.
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