LA BOHÈME
Giacomo Puccini

LA BOHÈME

Giacomo Puccini

Available for on-demand streaming from May 20, 2025 to January 20, 2026

On https://www.nationalopera.gr/GNOTV

Ticket: 10€

The hugely popular La Bohème by Graham Vick - 'the man who saved opera in Britain' (Telegraph) - is coming to GNO TV.

La bohème is based on the novella Scènes de la vie de bohème ("Scenes of Bohemian Life") by Henry Murger, and was first presented in 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Set against the backdrop of an icy Paris at Christmastime, the plot of this opera tells of the love between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì, from the moment they meet to the moment of her death from consumption. With his powerfully evocative music, Puccini makes audiences run the gamut of emotions in ways sublime: joy and abandon, great love and despair.

La bohème is based on the novella Scènes de la vie de bohème ("Scenes of Bohemian Life") by Henry Murger, and was first presented in 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Set against the backdrop of an icy Paris at Christmastime, the plot of this opera tells of the love between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì, from the moment they meet to the moment of her death from consumption. With his powerfully evocative music, Puccini makes audiences run the gamut of emotions in ways sublime: joy and abandon, great love and despair.

Conductor: Jacques Lacombe

Stage director: Graham Vick
Revival stage director: Katerina Petsatodi
Sets, costumes: Richard Hudson
Movement director: Ron Howell
Lighting: Giuseppe di Iorio
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
Children's chorus mistress: Konstantina Pitsiakou

Rodolfo: Ivan Magrì
Schaunard: Marios Sarantidis
Benoît:Vangelis Maniatis
Mimì: Anna Sohn
Marcello: Nikos Kotenidis
Colline: Tassos Apostolou
Alcindoro: Kostis Rassidakis
Musetta: Danae Kontora
Parpignol: Thanassis Evangelou
Customs sergeant: Ioannis Kontellis
Customs official: Yannis Stamatakis

With the Orchestra, Chorus and Children's Chorus of the Greek National Opera (as part of its educational mission)

With a 10-euro ticket, viewers can enjoy this production from the comfort of their homes at tv.nationalopera.gr/en, at any time they choose, on their computer, ipad, TV or mobile phones. The ticket offers the possibility to access the performance for an unlimited number of times over the course of a 30-day period starting from the first streaming.

The funding body of the project is the Ministry of Culture, within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan "Greece 2.0" with funding from the European Union - NextGeneration EU.

Lead Donor of the Greek National Opera and Founding Donor of the GNO TV

Stavros Niarchos Foundation