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Programme of 'La Bohème'

Donizetti, Gaetano:
Linda di Chamounix

(Programme is subject to change)

About the event 'La Bohème'

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.

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Artists of La Bohème

Damrau, Diana

, Soloist
sopran

Flórez, Juan Diego

, Soloist

Juan Diego is considered the belcanto tenor of choice in major opera houses around the world. His expressive, effortless and virtuoso singing, makes him ideal for the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. His performances in opera as well as in concert, at the world most important stages, have won him great acclaim by public and critic.

 

Born in Lima, Peru, he studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1996 he made his oficial debut at the Rossini Opera Festival, in Pesaro (Italy), substituting for the main role who fell ill. He was considered an overnight sensation, drawing attention from theaters like La Scala, where he made his debut the same year, at only 23.

 

Juan Diego has enjoyed great success at theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) in London, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Madrid's Teatro Real, Bercelona's Gran Teatro Liceo, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Zurich Opera, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Salzburg Festival, etc.

Tro Santafé, Silvia

, Soloist

Spagnoli, Pietro

, Soloist

Cantarero, Mariola

, Soloist