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120 years after its very first performance, which took place at Teatro Regio di Torino, La Bohème returns to the tradition-steeped Italian opera house. With director Àlex Ollé from La Fura dels Baus and music director Gianandrea Noseda the Teatro Regio presents a spectacular, up-to-date anniversary production featuring a young, lively and high-quality cast.

La Bohème is the love story of a young couple, penniless but hopeful. Mimì and Rodolfo, accompanied by Musetta and Marcello, spend much of their existence in joy tinted with jealousy, in the backdrop of vibrant Paris. La Bohème is a story about growing up and facing pain; about the passage from adolescence to maturity. The merry band of friends comes to terms with the harsh reality of Mimì’s condition. Suffering from tuberculosis, she dies in the arms of Rodolfo and changes the fate of all characters forever.

For Àlex Ollé, directing the opera for the first time, “La Bohème allows the young generation to get rid of everything that prevents them from flying, feeding only on their own vitality; the real hunger of the protagonists is the hunger for life. My production is set in a modern city outskirt. It is there where, in my opinion, the intellectual matrix of the future happens; in ugly, disreputable and poor places which are authentic. In this kind of environment, where life and art – as they did in Romanticism – belong to the survivors.”

“A triumphant youthful Bohème”, in which the singers excel due to their naturalness. Giorgio Berrugi sings his Rodolfo “with a luminous timbre, in refined nuances” (La Stampa), perfectly matching “Irina Lungu’s full-bodied Mimì” (The London Times). All in all, “this is theatre, this is life, this is passion” (Corriere della sera).

Length: approx 115' Cat. no. A 000 50041

A production of Teatro Regio Torino in cooperation with UNITEL

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Orchestra Orchestra del Teatro Regio Chorus Coro del Teatro Regio

Chorus Master Claudio FenoglioConductor Gianandrea Noseda

Stage Director Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus)

Mimì Irina Lungu Rodolfo Giorgio Berrugi Musetta Kelebogile Besong Marcello Massimo Cavalletti

Schaunard Benjamin Cho Colline Gabriele Sagona

Benoît & Alcindoro Matteo PeironeParpignol Cullen Gandy

Customs Sergeant Mauro BarraCustoms officer Davide Motta Fré

Produced by Metis FilmVideo Director Tiziano Mancini

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(3840 × 2160) ULTRA HD

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