La Bohème
An opera in four acts
19th October 2012
Houston Grand Opera, Texas
This is a new co-production between Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company and San Francisco Opera.
It opened at the Wortham Centre in Houston on the 19th October 2012 and played in repertoire through October and November.
The production opened at Canadian Opera Company in Toronto in October 2013 and will open at San Francisco Opera on November 15th and 16th, 2014.
La Bohème
| Music by | Giacomo Puccini |
| Libretto by | Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica |
| Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by | Henri Murger |
| as dramatized by | Théodore Barrière. |
Creative Team
| Conductor | Evan Rogister |
| Deputy Conductor | Eric Melear |
| Director | John Caird |
| Set and Costume Designer | David Farley |
| Lighting Designer | Michael James Clarke |
| Chorus Master | Richard Bado |
| Children’s Chorus Director | Karen Reeves |
| Musical Preparation | Peter Pasztor / Craig Keir |
| Répétiteuse Coaches | Ana Maria Otamendi / Elena Lacheva |
| Recording Engineer | Marlan Barry |
| Stage Manager | Kristen Burke |
| Assistant Director | Susan Li |
| Surtitles by | John Caird / Mena Mark Hanna |
| Surtitles cued by | Patrick Harvey |
| Set Design Assistants | Kim Alwyn / Cara Newman / Jonathan Patric Ward |
| Painting Consultant | Peter Farley |
| Assistant Costume Designer | Laura Gordon |
| Lighting Supervisor | Philip Alfano |
| Wigs and Make-up | Dotti Staker |
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Norma Cortez |
| First Assistant Stage Manager | Annie Wheeler |
| Second Assistant Stage Manager | Mary Elsey |
| Third Assistant Stage Manager | Katrin Bachus |
Cast
| Multiple actors denote alternating casts. | |
| Marcello | Joshua Hopkins / Mark Diamond |
| Rodolfo | Dimitri Pittas / Scott Quinn |
| Colline | Vuyani Mlinde / Nicholas Masters |
| Schaunard | Michael Sumuel |
| Benoit | Robert Pomakov |
| Mimì | Katie Van Kooten / Katie Natalya Romaniw |
| Parpignol | Kevin Ray |
| Alcindoro | Hector Vasquez |
| Musetta | Heidi Stober / Andrea Carroll |
| Sergeant | Keenan Manceaux |
| Customs House Guard | Peixin Chen |
| Supernumeraries | |
| Supernumeraries | Matt Elliott / Scott Florence / Sergio Flores / Chuck Kaufman / Bryan Sutton / Luke Wright |
Chorus
| Chorus Master | Richard Bado |
| Assistant Chorus Master | Craig Kier |
| Chorus | Ofelia Adame / Debra Alons / Shelley Auer / G. Leslie Biffle / Michel Bigelow / Bradly Blunt / Christina Boosahda / Sean Brabant / James C. Chamberlain / Christopher Childless / Sybil Elizabeth Crawford / Carrie Deorsam / Sean P. Elgin / Ami Figg / Donald Figg / Natasha Flores / Laurelle Glowing / Nancy L. Hall / Douglas E. Henshaw / Adrian M. Hernandez / Frankie Hickman / Sasha Holloway / Grover E. Holst / David Brooks Horn / Joy Jonstone / Joe Key / Kirsten Koerner / Hannah Celeste Lu / Alejandro Magallón / Keenan Manceaux / Kathleen Manley / Antonio Martinez / Katherine McDaniel / Jason Milan / Jeff Monette / Stacia Morgan / Gary V. Navy / Cristino Perez / Michael J. Sawyer / Paul Joseph Serna / Elizabeth Sharonov / Rochelle Rose Waddill / Alisa White / Jennifer Wright |
| Children's Chorus | Sofia Irene Botti / Noah Stephen Cook / Samuel Dill / Emme Lucia Enojado / Maria Dunn Gelves / Esme Bianca Grimshaw / Jacqueline Hickman / David Hultén / Lorenz Lopez / Olivia Manning / Grace Muir / Sarah E. Navy / Sophie Rei Qano / Catherine Frances Richard / Tobias Rytting / Calista Smith |
Orchestra
| Violin | Denise Terrant (Concertmaster) / Jonathan Godfrey (Assistant Concertmaster) / Erica Robinson (Principal Second Violin) / Carrie Kauk (Assistant Principal Second Violin) / Miriam Belyatsky / Rasa Kalesnykaite / Hae-a Lee / Chavdar Parashkevov / Anabel Ramirez / Mary Reed / Linda Sanders / Oleg Sulyga / Dorian Vandernberg-Rodes / Sylvia VerMeulen / Aloysia Friedmann / Andres Gonzalez / Sonja Harasim / Kana Kimura / Maria Lin / Fiona Lofthouse / Mila Neal / Sylvia Oullette / Trung Trinh / Pei-Ju Wu |
| Viola | Eliseo Rene Salazar (Principal) / Lorento Golofeev (Assistant Principal) / Mary Fulgham / Gayle Garcia-Shepard / Erika C. Lawson / Suzanne LeFevre / Elizabeth Charles / Kostadin Dyulgerski / Marcia Ryan |
| Cello | Barrett Sills (Principal) / Louis-Marie Fared (Assistant Principal) / Erika Johnson / Wendy Smith-Butler / Steven Wiggs / Steve Estes |
| Double Bass | Dennis Whittaker (Principal) / Erik Gronfor (Assistant Principal) / Carla Clark / Paul Cannon |
| Piccolo | Melissa Suhr |
| Flute | Seth Allyn Morrus (Principal) / Christina Medawar |
| Oboe | Elizabeth Priestly Siffert (Principal) / Robin Hough |
| Cor Anglais (English Horn) | Spring Hill |
| Clarinet | Carol Stinson (Principal) / Eric Chi |
| Bass Clarinet | Molly Mayfield |
| Bassoon | Amanda Swain (Principal) / Thomas DeWitt |
| French Horn | Sarah Cranston (Principal) / Kimberly Penrod Minson / Scott Strong / Gavin Reed |
| Trumpet | Jim Vassallo (Principal) / Randal Adams / George Chase |
| Trombone | Thomas Hultén (Principal) / Mark Holley / Travis Sheaffer |
| Bass Trombone | Ilan Morgenstern |
| Cimbasso | Mark Barton (Principal) |
| Harp | Joan Eidman (Principal) |
| Timpani | Nancy Nelson (Principal) |
| Percussion | Richard Brown (Principal) / Christina Carroll / Karen Slotter |
| Banda | |
| Piccolo | Colleen Matheu Johnson / Lisa Nickl |
| Trumpet | Logan Kavanaugh / Erin Thomas |
| Percussion | Karen Slotter |