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La bohème

State Opera (Státní opera)Wilsonova 4, Prague, Central Bohemian Region, 110 00, République tchèque
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de Prague
mercredi 17 décembre 202519:00
vendredi 19 décembre 202519:00
jeudi 25 décembre 202518:00
mardi 30 décembre 202519:00
samedi 03 janvier 202618:00
samedi 17 janvier 202618:00
jeudi 22 janvier 202619:00
dimanche 25 janvier 202618:00
samedi 31 janvier 202618:00
Programme
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)La bohèmeLivret de Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
Artistes
Prague State Opera
Yaroslav ShemetDirection
Ondřej HavelkaMise en scène
Martin ČernýDécors
Jana ZbořilováCostumes
Prague State Opera Orchestra
Jitka SlavíkováDramaturgie
Prague State Opera Chorus
Adolf MelicharChef de chœur
Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir
Jiří ChválaChef de chœur
Jana HanušováChorégraphie
Alejandro Del AngelTénorRodolfo
Petr NekoranecTénorRodolfo
Jana SiberaSopranoMimì
Kateřina KněžíkováSopranoMimì
Pavol KubáňBarytonMarcello
Jiří BrücklerBarytonMarcello
Barbora PernáSopranoMusetta
Lukáš BařákBaryton-basseSchaunard
Tadeáš HozaBarytonSchaunard
Jan HnykBasseColline
Pavel ŠvingrBasseColline
Roman VocelBasseBenoît
Jan JežekTénorAlcindoro
Martin MatoušekBarytonAlcindoro
Benjamín HájekTénorParpignol
Sergej SmirnyjTénorParpignol
Andrey StyrkulBasseCustoms Officer
Alexander LaptěvBasseCustoms Officer

Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème ranks among the most frequently staged operas worldwide. The composer was inspired by the Paris-based painter and writer Henry Murger’s popular book Scènes de la vie de bohème, published in 1851, immediately sensing its enormous dramatic potential. He duly asked the librettists and playwrights Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, with whom he had successfully collaborated previously, to pen a text for a new opera. Their fruitful partnership is among the most cherished in the history of opera, comparable to that of W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, or Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

La bohème premiered on 1 February in 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. The seeming levity of the opera, starkly contrasting with the still prevailing Wagnerism, baffled the audience and the critics alike. The opening night met with a lukewarm response, yet two months later in Palermo La bohème was received rapturously, and ever since has enjoyed enormous popularity. As he did again later in Madama Butterfly and Turandot, Puccini manifested his mastery of musical rendition of local colour. The current State Opera production, featuring Martin Černý’s sets and Jana Zbořilová’s costumes, was created by the stage director Ondřej Havelka, who with great elegance and gentle humour, alleviating the plot’s tragic situations, suggestively evokes the milieu of late 19th-century Paris, depicting as it does the story of four young artists for whom friendship is more than a mere word.

Suitable for audience from 12 years.

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