La Bohème (from 1 Dec. 2024)

Giacomo Puccini

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…

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

Patrick 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