La Bohème, the second opera of the season at the Palau de les Arts, will hold its dress rehearsal next Saturday.

17.11.2006

La Bohème, the next operatic production at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, is currently finalizing its rehearsals in the Main Hall of the coliseum with all those involved in the scene, in preparation for the general performance next Saturday.
La Bohème, the opera with which Giacomo Puccini definitively established himself as a great lyric composer, will premiere next Tuesday, November 21, and will also have performances on November 23, 26 and 28 and December 1 and 3.

Tickets for this new opera production are now available by calling 902 100 032 and at the opera house box office from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. On the day of each performance, 5% of the seats will be reserved for sale at the box office three hours before the start of the show. All performances will begin at 8:30 p.m., except for the performance on Sunday, November 26, which will begin at 12:00 p.m., and the performance on Sunday, December 3, which will begin at 7:30 p.m.

A young and undeniably talented cast

La Bohème will be performed in Valencia with a young but undeniably talented cast and stage direction by the renowned Pierre Audi. This production by the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam features Maija Kovalevska, the most recent winner of the Operalia competition, in the role of Mimì, and the prestigious tenor Massimiliano Pisapia as the poet Rodolfo.

The musical direction will be in the hands of Xian Zhang, a young Chinese conductor with extensive experience. Zhang was Lorin Maazel's assistant at the New York Philharmonic and one of the winners of the music competition sponsored by the American conductor.

The cast is completed by Gabriele Viviani and Miquel Ramón, sharing the role of Marcello; Serena Daolio as Musetta; Fabio Previati as Schaunard; Lorenzo Musí and Nahuel di Pierro sharing the role of Colline; Miguel Solá as Benoit; Miguel López Galindo as Alcindoro and Javier Agulló as Parpingnol.

This opera in four acts revolves around the lives of several young bohemians in mid-19th-century Paris. It premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on February 1, 1896.

La Bohème at the Palau de les Arts will feature the participation of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Cor de la Generalitat and the Escolanía de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados.

The libretto for La Bohème is based on the serialized novel, Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henry Murger, published in the newspaper Le Corsaire over five years (1845-1849). The libretto is by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.