Watch from 1 Dec. 2024, 7 a.m. CET
Premiere of this production: 3 December 2021, Polish National Opera, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw
Four young artists – Schaunard, Rodolfo, Colline and Marcello – go out to town on a wintery night. Rodolfo meets Mimi and it is love at first sight. They are enamored before they manage to introduce themselves to each other. Marcello is crushed to see his former lover Musetta have a wealthy Alcindor wrapped around her finger. It is a time of joy and reckless fun. A few months later Marcello is back in a stormy relationship with Musetta, while moneyless Rodolfo dumps seriously ill Mimi, frustrated and horrified as he is by his helplessness in the face of her suffering. It is a time of frustration, jealousy, and confusion. Mimi and Rodolfo will meet again, yet it will be too late to offer help and love then.
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CREDITS:
CONDUCTOR
Piotr Fournillier
DIRECTOR
Barbara Wysocka
SET DESIGNER
Barbara Hanicka
COSTUMES
Julia Kornacka
CHOREOGRAPHY
Tomasz Jan Wygoda
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Marc Heinz
VIDEO PROJECTIONS
Lea Mattausch, Artur Sienicki
CHORUS MASTER
Mirosław Janowski
CASTING DIRECTOR
Izabela Kłosińska
CHILDREN’S CHOIR MASTER
Danuta Chmurska
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CAST:
MIMI
Adriana Ferfecka
RODOLFO
Davide Giusti
MUSETTA
Aleksandra Orłowska
MARCELLO
Ilya Kutyukhin
SCHAUNARD
Sławomir Kowalewski
COLLINE
Jerzy Butryn
BENOIT
Grzegorz Szostak
ALCINDORO
Paweł Czekała
Chorus and Orchestra of the Polish National Opera
Władysław Skoraczewski Artos Children’s Choir
dancers and episodic actors
