They take life just as it comes: Rodolfo the poet, Marcello the painter, Schaunard the musician, Colline the philosopher and the other “Bohemians” living in Paris and dreaming of triumphs. And then there is the incurably ill Mimì, the little seamstress who fires and breaks Rodolfo’s heart. The make the opera “La Bohème” by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) into one great party with an unexpectedly tragic ending, confronting the young and carefree rollickers with the bitter experience of poverty, sickness and distress.

It is the power of emotion which Puccini drains to the lees, without allowing his figures to degenerate into cheap clichés. They represent a new generation believing confidently in the future and discovering in anguish that happiness is only a short-time guest. Robert Carsen’s production, which has already been shown on a number of European stages, brings out their youthfulness.


“Here, ‘Bohème’ is the jolly story which it is, turning into tragedy only with Mimì’s death struggle. The fair sufferer, for all that, is laid to rest on a carpet of daffodils in bloom. An image of affecting poignancy which had many a spectator reaching for a handkerchief.”
Michael-Georg Müller, Der Westen


In cooperation with Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen

 
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Giacomo Puccini

LA BOHÈME
Libretto by G. Giocosa und L. Illica after the novel “Scènes de la Vie de Bohème” by Henri Murger

 
In Italian with German surtitles
 

Musikalische Leitung Giordano Bellincampi
 
Mimi Brigitta Kele
Musetta Elisabeth Selle
Rodolfo Andrej Dunaev
Marcello Dmitri Vargin
Schaunard Daniel Djambazian
Colline Günes Gürle
Benoit Nikolai Miassojedov
Alcindoro Nikolai Miassojedov
Sergeant Clemens Begritsch
Parpignol Luis Fernando Piedra
Zöllner Franz-Martin Preihs
Chor Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
Kinderchor Kinderchor St. Remigius
Orchester Duisburger Philharmoniker