On Saturday, March 13th, Opus Arte and DigiScreen offer cinema opera fans another thrilling Royal Opera House production from Covent Garden with the irresistible La bohème presented at select Landmark Cinemas locations and other select theatres in Canada and the USA. Distributed worldwide by DigiScreen, the highly acclaimed production appears on select Canadian screens as part of an ongoing cinema series from the world’s great stages presented by The Royal Opera House’s Opus Arte.
Puccini’s best-loved work, with its unforgettable period designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, returns to The Royal Opera House stage with an outstanding cast. La bohème is one of the most famously melodious and eternally popular of all operas. The carefree attitude of youth and the harsh realities of life are poignantly contrasted through the tender affair of Mimì (Russian soprano Hibla Gerzmava) and Rodolfo (Romanian tenor Teodor Ilincai), from the heights of first meeting through to the tragic end.
The production is one of The Royal Opera Company’s most loved, bringing to life Paris of 1830 in detailed sets and costumes as we travel with the characters between bare attic, crowded café and a wintry street right on the city’s edge. The international cast is under the expert baton of Andris Nelsons, a conductor especially noted for his interpretations of Puccini. With that composer’s mastery of orchestral colour matched to the superb playing of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, La bohème is an evening of great sound, engrossing imagery and stirring romantic drama.
“Sold out audiences. Irresistible!” - Musicalcriticism
La bohème was captured before a live audience at Royal Opera House Covent Garden in December 2009.
Tickets will be available at $19.95 + tax per adult, $16.95 + tax per senior and $9.95 + tax per child. For cinema locations and to purchase advance tickets throughout Canada and the USA visit www.digiscreen.ca. For Landmark Cinemas in Alberta and BC, go to www.landmarkcinemas.com. For independent theatres in Vancouver and Waterloo please visit www.festivalcinemas.ca, www.princesscinemas.com.
