30th November

Concert will begin at 19:15 hours GMT

Puccini's 'La Bohème' with Willis-Sørensen, Kaufmann, Mesak and Zhilikhovsky from Munich

Puccini's 'La Bohème' is an opera to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger,  a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. Although usually called a novel, it has no unified plot. Like the 1849 play by Murger and Théodore Barrière, the opera's libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mimì, ending with her death. Performers:

Mimì: Rachel Willis-Sørensen.
Musetta: Mirjam Mesak.
Rodolfo: Jonas Kaufmann.
Marcello: Andrei Zhilikhovsky.
Schaunard: Sean Michael Plumb.
Colline: Tareq Nazmi.
Parpignol: Andres Agudelo.
Benoît: Christian Rieger.
Alcindoro: Karel Martin Ludvik.

Bavarian State Children's Choir and Choir. Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Asher Fisch.

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