La Bohème - Vanemuine

Sat 13 Sepat 19:00
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Sat 11 Octat 19:00
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Wed 29 Octat 19:00
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Sun 11 Janat 16:00
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Fri 30 Janat 19:00
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Mon 09 Febat 19:00
Estonian National Opera
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Sat 28 Febat 19:00
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Opera

Giacomo Puccini’s opera

Giacomo Puccini’s most celebrated, eternal opera of love and loss, of struggling artists on the edges of society who are about to learn life’s hardest lessons. On Christmas Eve in Paris, a young woman knocks on a young man’s door and their lives are changed forever. This is opera at its most joyous and most tragic, telling the most human of stories.

Puccini’s opera La Bohème premiered in 1896 at Teatro Regio in Turin. Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica’s libretto is based on Henri Mugler’s novel The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter.

Updated to a post-war Paris on the brink of the revolutionary 1960s, this fresh and energetic production is a new collaboration between British opera director John Ramster, Canadian-British designer Bridget Kimak and Vanemuine’s music director Risto Joost following their 2022 Don Giovanni at the Kilden Theatre in Norway.

Premiere on May 2nd 2025 at the Vanemuine Theatre Grand Building

PROGRAM

Language: Italian
Surtitles: Estonian, English

Composer Giacomo Puccini
Librettists Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
Musical Director and Conductor Risto Joost
Conductors Aleksandr Bražnik, Endel Nõgene, Kasper Joel Nõgene
Director John Ramster ^UK
Costume and Set Designer Bridget Kimak ^Canada/UK
Lighting Designer Palle Palmé ^SwedenDirector’s Assistant Merle Jalakas
Chief Concertmaster-Repetitor Toomas Kaldaru
Concertmasters Piia Paemurru, Margus Riimaa
Chief Chorusmaster Kristi Jagodin
Chorusmaster Martin Sildos
Chorus Concertmaster Helmi-Julia Nyman
Producer Kätlin Hoop

Cast Mirjam Mesak ^{Bayerische Staatsoper} or Tamara Kalinkina ^Ukraine, Gabriele Mangione ^Italy or Raimonds Bramanis ^{Latvian National Opera}, Kadri Kõrvek ^{Estonian National Opera} or Pirjo Jonas, Jānis Apeinis ^{Latvian National Opera} or Taavi Tampuu, Raiko Raalik ^{Estonian National Opera} or Simo Breede, Märt Jakobson or Kristjan Häggblom, Simo Breede or Atlan Karp, Taavi Tampuu or Atlan Karp, Rasmus Kull or Hisatoshi Nezu, Kristjan Häggblom or Janari Jorro, Artur Nagel or Egon Laanesoo, Rasmus Haav or Stefan Simanis

Vanemuine opera chours and Vanemuine symphony orchestra

Tartu Karlova School children’s choir