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9 unusual facts about La boheme


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The productions consists of stage performances such as La bohème, Othello, Aida, Swan Lake, Tosca, Zoroastre and Così fan tutte.

Champfleury

The character of Marcel in Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème, and thus the corresponding character Marcello in Puccini's opera based on it, was partially based on Champfleury.

It's a Date

Pamela sings, "Quando me n'vo - When I go along," from "La bohème".

James Barkley

Among other commissions, he has created artwork for productions of operas The Merry Widow, Madame Butterfly, and La bohème.

John Ardoin

Wait, I should say, that was my second opera, because I heard my first opera, La bohème, and then I saw the next year this neighboring city was doing La traviata.

Mario Talavera

Talavera then moved to Mexico City and joined the opera company, where he honed his vocal skills and achieved his dream of singing before large audiences opera works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, that gave him the musical direction he had long coveted, although his main contribution was as a popular music songwriter rather than as an opera singer.

Richard Verreau

He made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London, as the Duke in Rigoletto, in 1957, other roles there included: Alfredo in La traviata, Rodolfo in La bohème, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.

Takesha Meshé Kizart

Puccini La bohème Takesha Meshé Kizart (Mimì), Ji-Min Park (Rodolfo), conducted Lü Shao-chia.

Tony Britten

In 1994, he composed the music for Mole's Christmas, 30 minute animated film and in 1999 he wrote and directed Bohème, a film based on the Puccini opera, which was broadcast by Five and Artsworld.


Alessandro Bonci

On them, he is heard to best advantage in operatic arias by Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Gluck, but he was also renowned in Europe and the United States for his Rodolfo in Puccini's La boheme, his Riccardo in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and his Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto.

Angus Strathie

Strathie went on to design the costumes for a TV production of the famous Puccini opera La Boheme before his work on the famous Moulin Rouge an achievement that won him an Academy Award in 2001 for Best Costume Design.

Anna Veleva

Among her recent roles have been Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Musette in Puccini's La Boheme and Michaela in Bizet's Carmen produced by Columbia Artists Management.

Antonio Pini-Corsi

Pini-Corsi participated in numerous operatic premieres, creating such roles on stage as Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff and Schaunard in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème.

Armando Chin Yong

He was also Rodolfo in Puccini's opera, La Boheme, in a 1997 Taipei production, a role he reprised in 1999.

Bohemic acid

The name honors the Puccini opera La Bohème and many individual components of the acid carry the names of characters from La Bohème.

Carlton Gauld

Some of Gauld's other roles included Colline is in La Bohème and Kecal in The Bartered Bride.

Clamma Dale

She spent the next several years working in various opera houses in Paris, singing roles like Liu in Puccini's Turandot, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Pamina in The Magic Flute, and the one-woman tour de force of the bloodthirsty title character in Erzsebet, an opera by Charles Chaynes.

Claudia Lindsey

Finding it difficult to get work with opera companies in the United States, Lindsey went to Europe where she portrayed such roles as Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Mimi in La bohème, and the title heroine in Aida among other parts during the 1970s.

Ettore Bastianini

On January 28, 1945, in a Siena concert, he sang the bass arias "Vecchia zimarra" from Puccini's La bohème and "La Calunnia" from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Frogs for Snakes

#"Si Mi Chiamo Mimi" from La bohème, with vocalist Luba Orgonášová and Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Giacomo Vaghi

In 1945 he signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera, making his debut at the house on 18 February 1946 as Colline in La bohème with Dorothy Kirsten as Mimì, Jan Peerce as Rodolfo, Frances Greer as Musetta, John Brownlee as Marcello, and Cesare Sodero conducting.

Hariclea Darclée

Among the many roles she portrayed are Gilda in Rigoletto, Ophélie in Hamlet, Valentine in Les Huguenots, Violetta in La traviata, Desdemona in Otello, Mimì in La boheme, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, and the title roles in Manon, Manon Lescaut, Aida, and Carmen.

Hisham Abdel Khalek

His operatic repertoire includes 20 operas ranging from Aida, Tosca, Carmen, Rigoletto, La Traviata, La Boheme to Turandot.

Jeffrey Seller

Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini’s La Bohème (2002) and High Fidelity (2006), title of show (2008), and West Side Story (2009).

Jonathan Summers

He was a member of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, from 1976 to 1986, singing such roles as Albert in Werther, the Animal Tamer in the British premiere of the three-act version of Lulu, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Ford in Falstaff, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Marcello in La bohème.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera

The first telecast, La Bohème, featured Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo and Renata Scotto as Mimi, with James Levine conducting; all three were interviewed during the intermission.

Lívia Ághová

Her other roles with the company included Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen, and Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust.

Lyric Opera Baltimore

The 2012-13 season featured La bohème (with Anna Samuil and Timothy Mix), Don Giovanni (in conjunction with the Peabody Institute), and Rigoletto (starring Stephen Powell and Bryan Hymel).

Mairead Buicke

She also sang Mimì in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's concert performance of La bohème (2005) and Gretel in their concert performance of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (2007).

Marguerite Carré

She made her stage debut in Nantes in 1899 as Mimì in La bohème, the same role in which she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique.

Maurizio Bensaude

His repertoire for the stage included Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Germont in La Traviata, Lescaut in Manon by Massenet, the Escamillo in Carmen, Marcello in Puccini's La Boheme, and Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana.

Natalia Rom

The soprano's Metropolitan Opera debut was as Mimì in La bohème (in 1983, with Patricia Craig, Dano Raffanti, Richard Stilwell, Mario Sereni, James Morris, and Italo Tajo, conducted by James Levine), subsequently performing Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (opposite Leo Nucci and Paul Plishka) and Emma in the new production of Khovanschina (with Martti Talvela) at the house.

Nino Machaidze

Some of the performances in which Machaidze has taken part have also been videotaped and released on DVD, including: Il Trittico, La Scala, 2008; Romeo et Juliette, Salzburger Festspiele 2008; I Puritani, Teatro Comunale di Bologna or recently La Bohème with Anna Netrebko in Salzburg.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La bohème and Rigoletto (in 1902), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte (1910).

Raphaëlle Farman

Since then, she has undertaken various roles on stage or in the concert hall, developing her vocal and artistic personality in such roles as: Michaëla (Carmen), Esclarmonde (Esclarmonde), Violetta (La traviata), Mimi (La bohème), and also in Mozart operas (as Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, and the Countess).

Rosina Buckman

She then returned to New Zealand, toured Australia and debut in London with La boheme at Covent Garden.

Steven Byess

In the summer of 2007, Byess conducted Bernstein's Candide at the Pine Mountain Music Festival and Puccini's La bohème in Tel Aviv at the International Vocal Arts Institute.

Suzanne Adams

Her roles at the Met included Juliette, Marguerite, Marguerite de Valois from Les Huguenots, Micaela from Carmen, Cherubino from Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, Philine from Mignon, Berthe from Le prophète, the Forest Bird from Siegfried, Nedda from Pagliacci, Gilda from Rigoletto, Infanta from Le Cid, Inès from L'Africaine, and Mimì from La bohème among others.

Utah Festival Opera

Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert was the first work performed by the company in 1993, along with Puccini's La bohème and a double bill of Trial By Jury and The Impresario.


see also

Bohemic acid

Their names originate from the characters Alcindoro, Colline, Marcello, Mimì, Musetta, Rodolfo (Rudolph) and Schaunard of the Puccini opera La Bohème, and the acid itself and the bohemamine component carry the name of the opera.

Enzo Mascherini

In 1946 and 1947, Mascherini appeared at the New York City Opera, in La bohème (as Marcello), La traviata (with Dorothy Kirsten), Pagliacci (as Silvio, later as Tonio), Rigoletto, Andrea Chénier (opposite Vivian della Chiesa), and Il barbiere di Siviglia (with Luigi Infantino and Virginia MacWatters).

Joachim Barrande

The first volume of his great work, Système silurien du centre de la Bohême (dealing with trilobites, several genera, including Deiphon, which he personally described), appeared in 1852; and from that date until 1881, he issued twenty-one quarto volumes of text and plates.

Jussi Björling

On 15 March 1960, Björling suffered a heart attack before a performance of La bohème at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Luigi Infantino

The tenor sang regularly in Naples and Bologna, and made guest appearances at the New York City Opera in 1947: La traviata (with Enzo Mascherini as Giorgio), Rigoletto (opposite Giuseppe Valdengo and Virginia MacWatters), Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia (conducted by Julius Rudel) and Don Giovanni.

Mario Sereni

Puccini - La bohème - Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Mariella Adani - Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Thomas Schippers - EMI - (1963)

Myra Merritt

She was to appear with that company many times through 1991, including appearances in L'enfant et les sortilèges (as the Fire, directed by John Dexter), the Centennial Gala (the duet from Don Giovanni), La bohème (as Musetta, opposite Plácido Domingo), Les contes d'Hoffmann (as Antonia, conducted by Julius Rudel), Porgy and Bess (as Clara), L'italiana in Algeri (as Elvira) and Don Giovanni (as Zerlina).

Rita Shane

Over eight seasons, she also sang in La bohème (as Musetta), Un ballo in maschera (as Oscar), Le siège de Corinthe, La traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Le prophète (as Berthe, in John Dexter's production), and Rigoletto.

Teodor Ilincăi

His debut in Puccini’s La Bohème in Timişoara, Bucharest and Hannover followed.

Virginia MacWatters

From 1953 to 1955, she was also heard there in La bohème, opposite Victoria de los Ángeles as Mimì.

Western Canada High School

Starred in Baz Luhrmann's Broadway Production of La Bohème, and the World Premiere of The Fly (opera), by Howard Shore and Directed by David Cronenberg.