La Bohème at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

waiting for #Puccini2024

  Elisa speaks about her Musetta at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNXBSdb0y0

The performance on the 14 November 2023 will broadcasted live on Rai Radio 3 Resumption of the show staged in September 2017 and then again between December 2019 and January 2020, applauded by both critics and the public, one of the most beloved works of the Italian repertoire returns to the stage of Maggio: La bohème, the masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini, with a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica and inspired by Henri Murger’s novel Scènes de la vie de bohème. Directed by Bruno Ravella, revived on this occasion by Stefania Grazioli, the installation finds Rodolfo, Mimì, Marcello, Musetta and the other protagonists in late 19th century Paris: the cross-section of Rodolfo and Marcello’s attic, where it is set the first painting of the work is simple and essential in its spaces, while in the second painting the scene is dominated by a large semicircle full of lights, with the skeleton of the attic in the first painting becoming the structure of the famous Café Momus. The third painting is also minimalist in its structure: the setting of the scene set in La Barriera d’Enfer is made up of a small wooden building, a bar and a bench. The scenes, curated by Tiziano Santi, are well edited but not overly realistic, so as not to show a simple photographic portrait of the era in which the production is set, therefore aimed more at ‘suggesting’ the spaces rather than showing them as precisely in a photograph.