Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Production by the Teatro Real, in coproduction with the Royal Opera House of London and the Lyric Opera of ChicagoĬonductors I Nicola Luisotti - 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29 dic 2* janĭirector Children’s Chorus I Ana González Premiere at the Teatro Real, February 17, 1900 Premiere at the Teatro Regio of Turín, February 1, 1896
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger The audience watches the stage hands shift scenery, perhaps in keeping with a Puccini who set aside raw verismo in order to preserve, as if wrapped in amber, a piece of reality. The production by Richard Jones, which we remember from the 2017-2018 season, approaches this ≪ indestructible title ≫ with a respect for tradition, but taking its distance. However, whereas for the composer of Pagliacci, Murger’s scenes of Bohemian life were replicated in the cocktail of infidelities and jealousies that had brought him the success of his most emblematic piece, Puccini tempered the verista aspects of the story by transforming his opera into an everlasting ode to youth with a final and bitter nod to its inevitable impermanence. It allowed both authors to put together very different librettos with one characteristic in common: both are a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community of young artists in an idealized Paris of the 1840s. The episodic nature of the literary source of these works – Scènes of la vie bohéme by Henri Murger was originally published in a literary magazine. Ruggero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini both composed - almost simultaneously - their respective versions of La bohème.
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