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