La boheme
From: Tuesday, 22nd November 2011
To: Friday, 25 November 2011
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Synopsis
Puccini's most enduring opera. The story of the love of the poor poet Rodolfo for the consumptive seamstress Mimi. Set in the Latin Quarter of Paris the course of their love is constantly threatened by Rodolfo's jealousy and Mimi's illness. The painter Marcello and the provocative Musetta are the other main characters. This is where 'your tiny hand is frozen' comes from and the last few bars, as Rodolfo realises Mimi is dead, are some of opera's most moving moments.
Our Review:
Karen Bussell - 22 November 2011
Glyndebourne on Tour opens with perennial tear-jerking favourite Puccini’s La Boheme.
Michael Vale’s superb set supports Director David McVicar’s 2000 revival with the action placed firmly in the 21st century with hoodies and laptops, Jaegar bags and Fortnum and Mason hampers, concrete, lines of coke and mobile phones.
The garret is wonderfully squalid with crumbling walls, festering fridges and exploding electrics making believable the intense cold and consumption from which various protagonists suffer. Set upon a revolving platform with an overhead metal walkway, the dreary interior is soon replaced by an equally dire hall or graffiti-adorned streets or the colourful mayhem of last minute shopping in and around the vibrant Café Momus.
Under Jakub Hrusa’s baton, the GOT orchestra delights in the soaring lyricism of Puccini’s score ably (but occasionally rather loudly) supporting the emotional rollercoaster of star-crossed lovers the cons...
Cast
David Butt Philip (Rodolfo)
Oliver Dunn (Marcello)
Michael Wallace (Schaunard)
Timothy Dickinson (Colline)
Kishani Jaysinghe (Mimi)
Agnieszka Adamczak (Musetta)
Riccardo Simonetti (Benoit/Alcindoro)
David Shaw (Parpignol)
Matthew Wright (Customs-House Sergeant)
Peter Brathwaite (Customes Officer)
Creative
Puccini (Music)
Giacosa (Lyrics)
Illica (Lyrics)
Murger (Book)
Glyndebourne Touring Opera (Company)
Glyndebourne on Tour Orchestra (Company)
Glyndebourne Chorus (Company)
Jermey Bines (Conductor)
David McVicar (original) (Director)
Lee Blakeley (revival) (Director)
Michael Vale (Design)
Mikki Engelsbel (Costume)
Mark Bouman (Costume)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
Leah Hausman (original movment) (Director)
Nicole Tongue (revival movement) (Director)
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