La bohème - Schedule, Program & Tickets

La bohème

retraining
Opera by Giacomo Puccini

In Italian with German surtitles

Puccini's opera tells the love story of Mimì and Rodolfo against the backdrop of the milieu of Parisian artists, students, seamstresses and prostitutes. For the poet Rodolfo and his artist friends, life is just a game to escape from the bourgeoisie. But when his newfound love Mimì is ill and dying, life takes on a different form and suddenly becomes very real.

For this new production, the Vienna Volksoper is showing Harry Kupfer's already legendary production in Italian. In the case of Kupfer (1935 – 2019), one of the most important opera directors in post-war history, there was often talk of faithfulness to the work. Lotte de Beer paraphrases this term as follows: "Always go back to the source, to the original meaning of a score in the context of its time and only then look for an implementation that speaks to us in our present time." Faithfulness is not only important in the creation of a new production, but the term is beginning to be applied to historical productions by top directors themselves, such as Kupfer's.

For this new production, the Volksoper undertakes an "archaeological" investigation of the source, namely the production that Harry Kupfer staged in this house in 1984.

directing
Harry Kupfe

stage design
Reinhart Zimmerman

costumes
Eleanore Kleiber

choir rehearsal
Roger Díaz-Cajamarca

Subject to change.

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