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12+
La bohème
About the performance

The premiere took place at the Teatro Regio in Turin on the 1st of February 1896. It was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini that evening. Its critical merit was far from obvious: critics scolded the opera for a “silly” and vulgar “non-operatic” plot. However, ordinary audiences fell in love with it: every premiere performance was sold out.

After the start in Turin, La Bohème won city after city: Buenos Aires – Rome – Moscow – London – Berlin – New York. In France, where it was given for the first time in June 1898 on the stage of the Opéra Comique, the opera created a genuine sensation. Claude Debussy, a master of the finest sound works, admitted that he knew “nobody who could have described Paris of the time better than Puccini did in La Bohème.

Premiered on July 24, 2018.

Presented with one interval.

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on Henry Murger’s novel Scenes de la Vie de Bohème 

Bolshoi Theatre Children’s Choir

Scene:
New Stage
Auditorium
Run time:
2 hours 30 minutes
Language:
Italian
Bolshoi opera official sponsor is Payment System Mir
Davide Giusti as Rodolfo. Aluda Todua as Marcello.

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David Leigh as Colline. Nikolai Kazansky as Schaunard. Rame Lahaj as Rodolfo. Andrei Jilihovschi as Marcello.

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Andrei Jilihovschi as Marcello. Rame Lahaj as Rodolfo.

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Andrei Potaturin as Marcello. Azer Zada as Rodolfo. Nikolai Kazansky as Schaunard. Georgy Shagalov as Colline.

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Davide Giusti as Rodolfo. Pyotr Migunov as Colline. Yuri Syrov as Schaunard. Valery Gilmanov as Benoit. Aluda Todua as Marcello.

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Nikolai Kazansky as Schaunard. Ivan Ayon Rivas as Rodolfo. Vasily Ladyuk as Marcello.

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Francesco Pio Galasso as Rodolfo. Maria Mudryak as Mimi.

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Svetlana Lachina as Mimi. Bekhzod Davronov as Rodolfo.

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Alexei Tatarintsev as Rodolfo. Ekaterina Semenova as Mimi.

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A scene from the performance.

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A scene from the performance.

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Rame Lahaj as Rodolfo. Dinara Alieva as Mimi.

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Yuri Syrov as Schaunard. Denis Makarov as Colline. Konstantin Shushakov as Marcello.

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Olga Seliverstova as Musetta.

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A scene from the performance.

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Aida Garifullina as Musetta.

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Anna Aglatova as Musetta.

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Yuri Syrov as Schaunard. David Leigh as Colline. Teodor Ilincai as Rodolfo. Anna Nechaeva as Mimi.

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Damiana Mizzi as Musetta. Otar Kunchulia as Alcindoro.

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A scene from the performance.

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Ekaterina Semenova as Mimi.

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Svetlana Lachina as Mimi.

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Anna Nechaeva as Mimi.

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Damiana Mizzi as Musetta.

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Damiana Mizzi as Musetta. Aluda Todua as Marcello.

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Rame Lahaj as Rodolfo. Andrei Jilihovschi as Marcello.

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Nikolai Kazansky as Schaunard. Andrei Valenty as Colline. Bekhzod Davronov as Rodolfo. Markus Werba as Marcello.

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Matteo Lippi as Rodolfo. Maria Mudryak as Mimi.

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Vasily Ladyuk as Marcello. Mariangela Sicilia as Mimi. Nikolai Kazansky as Schaunard.

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Svetlana Lachina as Mimi. Bekhzod Davronov as Rodolfo. Markus Werba as Marcello. Aida Garifullina as Musetta.

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A scene from the performance.

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Cast
19 March
2023

Sunday, 14:00

18 March
2023

Saturday, 19:00

17 March
2023

Friday, 19:00

16 March
2023

Thursday, 19:00

15 March
2023

Wednesday, 19:00

27 November
2022

Sunday, 14:00

26 November
2022

Saturday, 19:00

25 November
2022

Friday, 19:00

24 November
2022

Thursday, 19:00

23 November
2022

Wednesday, 19:00

29 May
2022

Sunday, 14:00

28 May
2022

Saturday, 19:00

27 May
2022

Friday, 19:00

26 May
2022

Thursday, 19:00

25 May
2022

Wednesday, 19:00

05 February
2022

Saturday, 14:00

04 February
2022

Friday, 19:00

03 February
2022

Thursday, 19:00

02 February
2022

Wednesday, 19:00

26 December
2021

Sunday, 19:00

25 December
2021

Saturday, 19:00

24 December
2021

Friday, 19:00

23 December
2021

Thursday, 19:00

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Synopsis

Scene I

A Garret

In an unheated garret Marcello, an artist, is working on his canvas “Crossing the Red Sea”. He has difficulty holding his brush because the cold has so cramped his fingers. His friend, the poet Rodolfo, enviously looks at the smoke emerging from the smokestacks of the well-heated Parisian houses. Marcello sadly muses over his flighty and unfaithful girl-friend Musetta. Rodolfo turns down Marcello’s offer to fire the stove with his unfinished “Red Sea” and decides to sacrifice the first act of his drama rather than break up the chair for this purpose.

Another friend, the philosopher Colline, returns with a bundle of books that he wanted to sell, but since this is Christmas eve the stores were closed. His bad mood is dispelled by the warmth of the heated stove.

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