La Bohème

June 18, 23 & 25, 2022 | 7:30 p.m.
Music Hall

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Sung in Italian with projected English translations

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Get swept away by one of the most famous love stories ever sung. In his cold apartment on Christmas Eve, the penniless poet Rodolfo prepares to celebrate the holiday with friends on the city’s bustling streets. But with a quiet knock on the door, he meets Mimì, whose single candle has gone out. While searching for a match in the dark, hands touch, sparks fly, and lives change forever. La Bohème has captivated generations of audiences with its unforgettable music and its sweetly sentimental tale of young, bohemian lovers in Paris. The beloved favorite is presented in a new-to-Cincinnati production that brings a colorful, whimsical vision of the City of Light to the Music Hall stage.

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Cast & Creative Team

Mimì  Talise Trevigne
Musetta  Raven McMillon
Rodolfo  Ji-Min Park
Marcello  Rodion Pogossov
Colline  André Courville
Schaunard  Ethan Vincent
Benoit/Alcindoro Thomas Dreeze
Parpignol Houston Tyrrell
Custom-House Officer Dicky Dutton
Sergeant Randell McGee
Prune Seller Mitchell Sturges

Conductor  Mark Gibson
Stage Director Alain Gauthier
Scenic and Costume Designer Olivier Landreville
Lighting Designer  Thomas C. Hase
Wig & Makeup Designer  James Geier
Chorus Master  Henri Venanzi

Featuring the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Opera Chorus

NEWS & REVIEWS

“A terrific cast of lively bohemians, an evocative scenic design, and Puccini’s glorious melodies were hallmarks of Cincinnati Opera’s season-opening production of La Bohème …”
Read more at the Cincinnati Business Courier

“The Cincinnati Opera returned to Music Hall after an absence of two years with a very good production of Puccini’s La bohème.”
Read more at All About the Arts

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Opera Insights
Enhance your La Bohème knowledge with a pre-curtain lecture one hour before each performance in Music Hall's Corbett Tower. Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director, provides overviews and insights into the opera's history, music, and production. Free to all ticket holders. No reservations required.

 
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La Vie Bohème

Suzanne Martinucci reflects on the world that La Bohème creates.

“I love the way the opera begins. We know that the opening music comes from the Capriccio Sinfonico, a piece Puccini composed years earlier while he was a student. Here it brings to mind someone energetically and determinedly – perhaps stamping the cold out of his feet – marching up all those stairs to the garret where Rodolfo and Marcello are working, sweeping all of us along…”

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Meet the Composer

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who started the operatic trend toward realism with popular works such as La Bohème and Madame Butterfly. He has been called “the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi.”

"Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements."

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