Arrangement from Friday 10 to Monday 13 January 2025,
3 nights
When Giacomo Puccini read Henri Murger’s work Les scènes de la vie de bohème in 1893, he was immediately taken with the freshness, youth, passion, cheerfulness and love with all its joys and sufferings. Puccini (1858-1924) immediately recognized the ideal material for an opera. The libretto was written by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, who had already worked successfully with the composer for Manon Lescaut.Puccini worked out the depth of the characters in detail in his Bohème: Important moments were meticulously composed and text and music form an incomparable unity. Puccini completely attuned the themes to the action, in which lyrical-sentimental parts contrast excellently with humorous, lively parts. Since he was a genius at writing precisely for the human voice, his operas, above all "La Bohème", were a great success because of their incomparably beautiful melodies. Famous arias like "Che gelida manina" or "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì" can also be found on opera samplers due to the intensity of the transported feelings or are a fixed component of concert evenings.The stage-effective piece, first performed in Turin in 1896, with its impressionistic features around the poet Rodolfo and his beloved Mimì, who cannot escape poverty and misery in their Parisian attic, still brings tears of emotion to the eyes of the audience today. Puccini’s masterpiece is certainly one of the most original and magical operas ever written.
La Bohème♪ - G. Puccini, the 11
Speranza Scappucci - Richard Jones
Olga Kulchynska, Simona Mihai, Stefan Pop, Mikhail Timoshenko
Royal Opera House
Concert of the London Symphony Orchestra, the 12
M. Tippett : Ritual Dances de Midsummer Marriage
M. A. Turnage : Sco - Concerto pour guitare (première mondiale)
R. V. Williams : Symphonie n° 5
Sir Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle is a British conductor, born January 19, 1955 in Liverpool, this student of piano and violin began a career as a percussionist before taking the direction of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1974. Simon Rattle rose to fame in head of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted from 1980 to 1988. Known in 1994, Sir Simon Rattle was consecrated in 2002 when he took the reins of the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, succeeding Claudio Abbado. In July 2012, Sir Simon Rattle took the lead of the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games. Since September 2017 Sir Simon Rattle is Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Sir Simon Rattle♪
Guitare : John Scofield
Barbican Centre