ABOUT THE EVENT

A star-studded cast, including Ramón Vargas, Angela Gheorghiu, and Ainhoa Arteta (details below) perform in Puccini's La Bohème at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

From the mid-19th century onwards - against the background of industrialization, the supremacy of bourgeois values, and an intellectual climate dominated by secular materialistic and scientific positivism - art became realistic, seeking to show things as they really were, almost photographically, rather than making them more amiable or more beautiful. An opera such as La Bohème, which talks of the fragile nature of happiness in a world of poverty, cold and disease, is an obvious example of this trend.
In La Bohème, however, the aesthetic of Verismo becomes more sentimental and the brutality of social reality is depicted less crudely than elsewhere. Four young artists live their everyday lives amid dreams and disappointments, waiting for the event that is to win them renown, but poverty and misfortune deprive the leading characters — Mimì and Rodolfo — of the joy of mutual love. The text and music relate all this with a pleasant melodramatic tenderness with which it is easy to identify.

Forty-five minutes before each performance, an information session about the opera, open to all  members of the audience, will be held in the Foyer.

Production: Teatro Real

Conductor: Christophe Rousset / Víctor Pablo Pérez
Stage direction: Giancarlo del Monaco
Scenography, Costumes: Michael Scott
Lighting: Ulrich Niepel

Cast:
Fiorenza Cedolins (27, 01, 04, 07, 10, 13, 18) / Inva Mula (29, 03, 06, 09, 12)  / Angela Gheorghiu (16, 19) / Maria Luigia Borsi (28, 02, 08, 15), Ainhoa Arteta (27, 01, 04, 07, 10, 13, 16, 18, 19)/ Ainhoa Garmendia (29, 03, 06, 09, 12) / Eliana Bayon (28, 02, 08, 15), Ramón Vargas / Roberto Aronica / Saimir Pirgu / Teodor Ilincai, Christopher Maltman / Georges Petean / Àngel Òdena, Carlo Colombara, Manel Esteve Madrid and Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

In some areas of the Gran Teatre del Liceu it is possible to be seated with a partially obstructed view of the stage. The Gran Teatre del Liceu recommends Zone 2 for the finest and completely unobstructed view of the performance. The stage is not visable from seats starting in row 2 of Zone 8.  A monitor is provided for following the performance in this section. Only available for operas.

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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