La Boheme

Giacomo Puccini, Robin Norton-Hale

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781849436298
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Subtopic: Música de ópera

Winner of 'Best Off West End Production' at the 2011 What's On Stage Awards Winner of 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for "Best New Opera Production" The writer, the lover, the artist, the flirt. Out tonight in Soho and falling in love. A new set of bohemians take over Soho Theatre and bar in this electric new English translation of La Bohème, a tale of love and tragedy, indulgence and excess. Having wowed audiences at Kilburn's Cock Tavern in a record-breaking, sell-out six-month run, Soho Theatre takes on opera for the very first time as Puccini's La Bohème is retold for contemporary Soho with a talented, classically trained young cast.
This production was proclaimed the Critics' Choice by The Times, The Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday.

OperaUpClose

OperaUpClose and Vaughan Williams and Steven M. Levy
present the Olivier Award-winning production of

First performed at The Cock Tavern Theatre on 8 December 2009

CAST

RODOLFO	Edward Hughes
	Philip Lee
	Gareth Morris

MARCELLO	Tom Bullard
	Nicolas Dwyer
	Tom Stoddart

MIMI	Susan Jiwey
	Rhona McKail
	Elinor Jane Moran

MUSETTA	Prudence Sanders
	Una Reynolds

COLLINE	Julian Charles
	Dickon Gough

SCHAUNARD	Marcin Kopec
	Alistair Sutherland

ALCINDORO

Martin Nelson

BENOIT

Chris Holwell

MUSETTA (selected dates) and BARMAID

Sarah Minns

CHORUS	Charlie Bannocks
	Marianne Hare
	Anthony Pinnick
	James Schouten
	Rebecca Shanks

PRODUCTION TEAM

DIRECTOR/LIBRETTIST

Robin Norton-Hale

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Elspeth Wilkes

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN

Lucy Read

LIGHTING DESIGN

Richard Williamson

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN	Kate Guinness
(Original production)	Lucy Read

LIGHTING DESIGN	Christopher Nairne
(Original production)

MUSICAL DIRECTOR	Andrew Charity
(Original production)

ASSOCIATE MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Emily Leather

PRODUCERS	Dominic Haddock
	Adam Spreadbury-Maher
	Steven Levy
	Vaughan Williams

PRODUCER	Ben Cooper
(Original production)

PRESS

Amanda Malpass

MARKETING

Jo Hutchison

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Jane Arnold-Forster

STAGE MANAGER

Checca Ponsonby

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Eloise Akehurst

CHARLIE BANNOCKS (CHORUS)

Charlie will be appearing in The Seasoning House directed by Paul Hyett as ‘Villager girl’ a sex trafficked Balkan girl, which premiered as the opening film in Film4’s Frightfest in Leicester Square. She recently performed in Shakespeare’s Library at The Barbican, as part of The RSC’s World Shakespeare Festival. Theatre includes: Songstress in Shakespeare’s Library (Strangeworks/The Barbican), Thel in Visions of Tiriel and the Daughters of Albion (Wilton’s Music Hall), Chorus in La Bohème (OperaUpClose at Soho Theatre), Laddie in The Lost Boys (Future Cinema), Mia in Kafka’s Judgement (RETZ’s/ Somerset House), The Bride in Blood Wedding, Phoebe in The Seance and Eva in Chatroom (The Palace Theatre Westcliff). TV/ Film includes: The Seasoning House (Paul Hyett/ Sterling Pictures), Charlie in Freak (Dan Jerome Gill/Trail Blazer Pictures), and the small girl in Felicia’s Journey (Atom Egoyan/ Icon/Alliance Altantis Pictures).

TOM BULLARD (MARCELLO)

Marcello/Schaunard La Bohème (OperaUpClose), Jack Rock La Fanciulla del West (OperaUpClose), Wilkins (cover) Merrie England (Opera South), Max Demon Lover (Grimeborn Festival), Figaro The Barber of Seville (OperaUpClose), Peter Ivanov Zar und Zimmermann (Opera South), Dandini Cinderella (OperaUpClose), Soldier Alban (Alban Community Opera), Smirnov The Bear (Minotaur Music Theatre), Piquillo (cover) La Périchole (Opera South). Baritone soloist in Since it was the day... (MacMillan) world premiere at Edinburgh International Festival (2011), recital of Haydn songs, duets and trios for Le Concert d’Astrée in Lille Opera House (2011), Voices of Light (Einhorn) with LSO and Marin Alsop (2011), The Desert Music (Reich) with LSO and Kristjan Järvi (2011), The Cave (Reich) with Ensemble Modern (2011). Competitor in the Wigmore Hall Kohn Foundation International Song Competition (2011), baritone soloist in Summer Opera Gala for Opera South with Ann Murray (2011), New Year’s Opera Gala for Opera South (2011), Britten-Pears Young Artist, English Song Course, with Ann Murray and Ian Partridge (2010). Soloist with The City Waites, BBC4 documentary for Waldemar Januszczak (2010). Musical Director of The Allegri Singers (from 2008). Musical Director of the Swingle Singers (2004–2008). Teaches at Westminster Under School and St Paul’s School for Boys.

JULIAN CHARLES (COLLINE)

Julian Charles studied singing with Adrian Thompson. He was a member of the Welsh National Opera Company for two years performing Don Carlo, Der Fliegende Holländer, La Damnation de Faust, Tosca, Don Giovanni and Mazeppa. Since then Julian has performed with leading ensembles and conductors across Europe such as Essa Pekka Salonen, Peter Schreier, Gregor Nozvak, Jeffrey Tate, Carlo Rizzi and André de Ridder, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, London Handel Players and London Mozart Players. In Recital he has sung at the Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival and Chelsea Schubert festival. Last year Julian toured England, France and Switzerland with Diva Opera and this year England with Pavilion Opera. He has sung at Buxton Festival Opera, Opéra Municipale and recently the Soho Theatre in a production of La Bohème which won both an Olivier Award and Whatsonstage Award and is now revived at the Charing Cross Theatre with plans for performances in Dublin in 2013. Other plans include Handel Messiah (Peterborough Cathedral), Fauré Requiem (Norwich Cathedral), Beethoven Symphony 9 (The Anvil Basingstoke/Royal Festival Hall), Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (Laeiszhalle Hambur), Verdi Requiem (Staatstheater Bamburg), Gounod Mors et Vita (Le Silo Marseille).

NICOLAS DWYER (MARCELLO)

Previously with OperaUpClose as Escamillo in Carmen and as Alidoro in Cenerentola. Nicolas has performed at Grange Park Opera as the Jailer in Tosca, the Herald in Rigoletto and as Captain Petrovich whilst covering the title role in Eugene Onegin. Roles elsewhere include Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte (Situation Opera), Javert in Les Misérables (Pimlico Opera Prisons Project) and roles in contemporary operas at the Tête à Tête and Grimeborn opera festivals. Nick recently resumed studies at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

DICKON GOUGH (COLLINE)

Dickon trained at LIPA, studied Opera at Birkbeck University and is a former member of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. Recent credits include Pinellino Gianni Schicchi and Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Holland Park), Masetto/Commendatore Don Giovanni (Opera della Luna), Viscomte Cascada The Merry Widow (Opera della Luna), Leporello Don Giovanni (Soho Theatre/OperaUpClose), Sergeant of Police Pirates of Penzance, (Kilworth House Theatre), Colline in OperaUpClose’s Olivier Award-Winning La Bohème (Soho Theatre/OperaUpClose), Dr. Bartleby The Barber of Seville...