La Bohème

In the organizer's words:

Opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini

Text by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Can we live completely free and still take responsibility? This is the question posed by "La Bohème", which is much more than a touching tale of love and art.

A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Their turbulent everyday lives, which alternate between dreariness and pleasure-seeking, take a new direction when two self-confident women enter the scene. With wit and chutzpah, all six defend their non-conformist way of life against economic and social constraints. While they remain in the temporary and precarious, fate already has other plans. Giacomo Puccini's opera, which premiered in 1896, made the friends from Henri Murger's novel "Scenes from the Life of the Bohemians" world-famous. His musical translation of the tragic love between the seamstress Mimì and the poet Rodolfo hits the heart with unerring precision. "We'll only part when the flowers bloom again", the couple promise each other, but Mimì is already terminally ill. In "La Bohème", director and set designer Blanka Rádóczy, who was named the best young director of 2017 in the "Theater heute" critics' survey for her production of "Teorema", shows (super)artists of life in an increasingly hostile world.

#press reviews:

""La Bohème" shows once again that Theater Aachen has a pleasingly good young ensemble, which has been strengthened by some promising "newcomers" ... Nothing stands in the way of a successful series of performances"

Grenzecho

"Director Blanka Rádóczy succeeds particularly well in the scenes in the men's shared flat and in Café Momus, which are very fluid and light. We really like the characters. The performers of Rodolfo, Marcella and Musetta, all new to the ensemble, enchant the audience with their young, very musical voices and fluid, charismatic acting. Mimì complements them with refinement and intensity. GMD Christopher Ward conducts the Aachen Symphony Orchestra with a lean, clear sound and great contrasts. The score has a modern feel."

The German Stage