Production new to Los Angeles
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Music: Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henry Mürger
World premiere: February 1, 1896, Teatro Regio (Torino, Italy)
A production of the Komische Oper Berlin
Cast:
Rodolfo: Saimir Pirgu
Mimì: Marina Costa-Jackson*
Marcello: Kihun Yoon‡
Musetta: Erica Petrocelli†
Colline: Nicholas Brownlee‡
Schaunard: Michael J. Hawk†
Alcindoro: Patrick Blackwell
Parpignol: Robert Stahley*†
Prune Seller: Todd Strange
Custom House Officer: Reid Bruton
Sergeant: Steve Pence
Creative team:
Conductor: James Conlon
Director: Barrie Kosky
Set Designer: Rufus Didwiszus*
Costume Designer: Victoria Behr*
Original Lighting Design: Alessandro Carletti*
Chorus Director: Grant Gershon
Artistic Director, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus: Fernando Malvar-Ruiz
Associate Director: Katharina Fritsch*
Associate Lighting Designer: Marco Philipp*
* LA Opera debut
† Member of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
‡ Alumnus of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
Performance dates and times:
Saturday, September 14, 2019, at 6pm
Sunday, September 22, 2019, at 2pm
Wednesday, September 25, 2019, at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 28, 2019, at 7:30pm
Wednesday, October 2, 2019, at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 6, 2019, at 2pm
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Estimated running time: two hours, 30 minutes, including one intermission
Venue: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012)
All programs, artists and dates are subject to change.
Click here to go to the main web page for La Bohème.
Last updated: August 20, 2019
