La Boheme
- By:
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini. Conductor: Robert Dean
- Management:
- Holland Park
- Cast:
- Linda Richardson, Aldo Di Toro, Sean Ruane, Grant Doyle, George Von Bergen, Tim Mirfin, Njabulo Madlala, Hye-Youn Lee, Eric Roberts, Peter Kent, Henry Grant Kerswell
- Director:
- Elaine Kidd
- Design:
- Colin Richmond
- Lighting:
- Colin Grenfell
- Choreography:
- Sarah Fahie
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for La Boheme items Search for tickets at TicketmasterWith John Copley's traditional staging still revived regularly at Covent Garden, Elaine Kidd and her team plainly felt they could afford to radicalise Puccini's sure-fire hit. Dispensing with any specific sense of period, let alone the confined artists' garret in which Mimi and Rodolfo traditionally fall in love, the wide but shallow performing space at Holland Park is dominated by a huge piece of Marcello's artwork, blood red and indicative of passions to come. The Cafe Momus is evoked in ingenious fashion with Marcello's canvas pulled off its scaffolding to reveal, mounted beneath, the cafe's illuminated sign. While the stage looks over-stuffed in Act II and the scaled-down orchestra is over-driven and over-loud much of the time, the essential dramatic ground is covered effectively and economically...
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