La bohème
Festival 2022's new production of opera’s greatest love-story comes to the Tour
Tour dates
After the performances at Glyndebourne, this production will be on stage at Milton Keynes, Canterbury, Norwich and Liverpool.
All dates and times are subject to change.
About the opera
Sometimes love just isn’t enough.
When seamstress Mimì meets the struggling writer Rodolfo they are instantly drawn together. But while Paris is a magical city of love, it’s also a very real place of hardship as the two young Bohemians and their friends soon discover, when not just jealousy but poverty and sickness tear them apart.
In La bohème Puccini created an opera in which ordinary people are elevated to the level of the extraordinary, the tragic, the timeless – transformed by a score that has seduced generations of audiences. Conversational and familiar, atmospheric and emotionally amplified, La bohème paints the complexity of human relationships in all their many shades, framing them with wonderfully vivid, bustling scenes of Parisian life. Comedy and tragedy are woven tightly together in an irresistible flow of melody and drama.
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Creative team
Conductor
Rory Macdonald
Olivia Clarke (16, 19 Nov)
Director
Floris Visser
Set Designer
Dieuweke Van Reij
Costume Designer
Jon Morrell
Lighting Designer
Alex Brok
Choreographer
Pim Veulings
Dramaturg
Klaus Bertisch
Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Cast includes
Rodolfo
Bekhzod Davronov
Mimì
Gabriella Reyes
Marcello
Luthando Qave
Musetta
Mariam Battistelli
Schaunard
Luvuyo Mbundu
Colline
William Thomas
Alcindoro/Benoît
Darren Jeffery
La bohème to audiences across the country? To find out more, contact our Development team on
+44 (0)1273 815 419 or development@glyndebourne.com
Illustration © Katie Ponder