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Toledo Opera presents La Bohème Giacomo Puccini on February
7 &
9 at the Valentine Theatre
Young love. Bohemian
artists. Exquisite music. Set in Paris in 1830, La Bohème is
a story of young artists pursuing their dreams and finding
love and friendship in the midst of great hardship. Toledo
Opera presents the most beloved opera of all time, Puccini’s
La Bohème, on February 7 & 9 at the Valentine Theatre.
This new, fully staged
production will be presented in Italian with English
subtitles and will feature the Toledo Opera Chorus, Toledo
Opera Children's Chorus and Toledo Symphony under the baton
of James Meena. Veteran director Jeffrey Buchman who
directed Carmen last season is back.
The dashing writer Rodolfo
is played by tenor Zach Borichevsky. Borichevsky has
performed the role Rodolfo for both the Finnish National
Opera and English National Opera. Soprano Jessica Dold will
play Mimi, the ailing seamstress. Dold made her company
debut with Toledo Opera in Magic Flute last season and we
are thrilled to have her returning to us.
Alicia Russell, who was a
Toledo Opera Resident Artist last year and also played
Frasquita in Carmen, will be performing the role of flirty
singer Musetta. Russell just won the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions for North Carolina. Brian Major,
familiar to Toledo Opera audiences from Magic Flute &
Carmen, will play Marcello, a young painter.
Playing two of Roldolfo's
starving artist friends are bass-baritone Peter Morgan as
Colline, a philosopher and baritone Keith Harris who plays
the musician Schaunard. Donald Hartmann is Alcindoro/Benoi.
Jeawook Lee is a current Toledo Opera Resident Artist and is
playing the role of the toymaker, Parpignol. |
Alicia Russell
Brian Major |
