Vick and Mariotti refresh Bohème in Bologna

By James Imam, 23 January 2018

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“Mariotti succeeds in matching broad-brushstroke romanticism with the finer detail of an etching”

Reviewed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bologna on 20 January 2018

Puccini, La bohème

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Michele Mariotti, Conductor

Graham Vick, Director

Richard Hudson, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Alessandra Marianelli, Mimì

Matteo Lippi, Rodolfo

Sergio Vitale, Marcello

Ruth Iniesta, Musetta

Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore, Schaunard

Evgeny Stavinsky, Colline

Bruno Lazzaretti, Benoît, Alcindoro

Coro di Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.