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La Bohème staged by Stefan Herheim / Operahuset

La Bohème staged by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Eivind Gullberg Jensen featuring a brilliant cast with Marita Sølberg and Diego Torre.

Opera in four acts (1896)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Henry Murger’s Scènes de la vie de bohème.

Set in the artistic but impoverished milieu of early 19th-century Paris, the tragic love of the poet Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì is one of the most affecting in all opera. La Bohème’s arias are also some of the most intensely passionate Puccini ever wrote, making it is one of the best-loved of all his works. In what Opera News called a ‘thorough rethinking and brilliant re-creation’ this exceptional Oslo production, strongly cast and conducted, and staged by internationally acclaimed director Stefan Herheim, explores the work as never before to create what The New York Times called an ‘ultimately haunting’ experience.

Rodolfo – Diego Torre, tenor
Mimì – Marita Sølberg, soprano
Marcello – Vasily Ladyuk, baritone
Musetta – Jennifer Rowley, soprano
Benoit, Parpignol, Toll Gate Keeper, Alcindoro, Death – Svein Erik Sagbråten, tenor

The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
Conductor – Eivind Gullberg Jensen

Stage Director – Stefan Herheim

Video Director – Stein-Roger Bull
Filmed on 31 January and 4 February 2012 at the Operahuset, Oslo, Norway

Bonus Feature: Interviews with Stefan Herheim, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Marita Sølberg and Svein Erik Sagbråten

2.110728 / NBD0148V
Total time: 118 minutes
Language: Italian · Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Japanese, Korean
DVD: NTSC 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 · DVD 9 · Region: 0 (Worldwide)
Blu-ray: HD 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C