La Bohème
An opera in four acts
15th November 2014
San Francisco Opera, California
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 then re-opened at Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Canada on October 3rd 2013.
The San Francisco Opera Company leg of the journey opened on November 14th 2014 – with a double cast in the main leading roles.
The creative team and cast for San Francisco was as follows:
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 | Giuseppe Finzi |
| Director | John Caird |
| Set and Costume Designer | David Farley |
| Lighting Designer | Michael James Clarke |
| Chorus Director | Ian Robertson |
| Assistant Conductor | Dennis Doubin |
| Répétiteurs | John Churchwell / Bryndon Hassman / Noah Lindquist |
| Prompter | Fabrizio Corona |
| Supertitles by | John Caird / Mena Mark Hanna |
| Assistant Directors | Jose Maria Condemi / E. Reed Fisher / Morgan Robinson |
| Stage Manager | Rachel Henneberry |
| Costume Supervisor | Kristi Johnson |
| Wig and Make-up Designer | Jeanna Parham |
Cast
| in order of appearance: | |
| Marcello | Alexey Markov / Brian Mulligan |
| Rodolfo | Michael Fabiano / Giorgio Berrugi |
| Colline | Christian Van Horn |
| Schaunard | Hadleigh Adams |
| Benoît | Dale Travis |
| Mimì | Alexia Volgaridou / Leah Crocetto |
| A Prune Vendor | Colby Roberts |
| Parpignol | Chester Pidduck |
| A boy | Ethan Chen |
| Musetta | Nadine Sierra / Ellie Dehn |
| Alcindoro | Dale Travis |
| A Custom-House Sergeant | Bojan Kovežević |
| A Custom-House Officer | Torlef Borsting |
| The leading roles were covered as follows: | |
| Rodolfo | Eric Margiore |
| Marcello | Joo Won Kang |
| Colline | Scott Conner |
| Schaunard | Efrain Solis |
| Mimi | Julie Adams |
| Musetta | Maria Valdes |
Corps Dancers
| Dance Master | Lawrence Pech |
| Dancers | Brook Broughton / Blanche Hampton / Rachel Speidel Little / Chiharu Shibata / David Bier / Ikolo Griffin / Bryan Citron / Michael Kruzich / Michael Levine / Jekyns Pealed |
Chorus
| Regular Chorus | |
| Sopranos | Kathleen Bayler / Sara Colburn / Dvora Djoraev / Mary Finch / Ann Hughes / Claire Kelm / Elisabeth Rom Lucio / Rachelle Perry / Virginia Pluth / Carole Schaffer / Mitzie Kay Weiner |
| Mezzo-Sopranos | Roberta Bowman / Janet Campbell / Joy Graham / Sally Mouzon / Sally Munro / Erin Neff / Laurel Porter / Laurel Rice / Shelley Seitz / Claudia Siefer / Donna Turchi |
| Tenors | C. Michael Belle / Alan Cochran / Chris Corley / Daniel Harper / Christopher Jackson / Phillip Pickens / Chester Pidduck / Colby Roberts / Sigmund Seigel / Dan Stanley / Alexander Taite / Andrew Truett / Richard Walker |
| Baritones/Basses | Torlef Borsting / Cameron Henley / Ken Johnson / David Kekuewa / Frederick Matthews / Jim Meyer / William O'Neill / William Pickersgill / Valery Portnov / Ken Rafanan / Jere Torkelsen |
| Extra Chorus | Buffy Baggott / Angela Cadelago / Greta Feeney / Eileen Meredith / Angela Moser / Aimée Puentes / Nicole Takesono / Thomas Hart / Tom Reed / Pedro Rodelas / Alfredo Rodriguez / Michael Taylor / Peter J. Tuff |
Orchestra
| Music Director | Nicola Luisotti |
| Principal Guest Conductor | Patrick Summers |
| Resident Conductor | Giuseppe Finzi |
| First Violin | Kay Stern (Concertmaster) / Laura Albers (Associate Concertmaster) / Heidi Wilcox (Assistant Concertmaster) / Jennifer Cho / Dawn Harms / Mariya Borozina / Lev Rankov / Barbara Riccardi / Leonid Igudesman / Asuka Annie Yano / Wenyi Shih / Robin Hansen |
| Second Violin | Jeremy Preston (Principal) / Martha Simonds (Associate Principal) / Beni Shinohara (Assistant Principal) / Eva Karasik / Leslie Ludena / Linda Deutch Twohy / Craig Reiss / Joseph Edelberg |
| Viola | Carla Maria Rodrigues (Principal) / Sergey Rakitchenkov (Associate Principal) / Paul Nahhas (Assistant Principal) / Patricia Heller / Jonna Hervig / Natalia Vershilova / Joy Fellows |
| Cello | David Kadarauch (Principal) / Thalia Moore (Associate Principal) / Nora Pirquet (Assistant Principal) / Emil Miland / Victoria Ehrlich / Eric Sung |
| Bass | Joseph Lescher (Principal) / Jonathan Lancelle (Associate Principal) / Steven D'Amico (Assistant Principal) / Shinji Eshima / Mark Drury |
| Flute | Julie McKenzie (Principal) / Patricia Farrell / Stephanie McNab |
| Piccolo | Stephanie McNab |
| Oboe | Mingjia Liu (Principal) / Deborah Henry (Assistant Principal) / Deborah Shidler / Janet Popesco Archibald |
| Cor Anglais (English Horn) | Janet Popesco Archibald |
| Clarinet | Jose Gonzalez Granero (Principal) / Joanne Burke Eisler (Assistant Principal) / Anthony Striplen |
| Bass Clarinet | Anthony Striplen |
| Bassoon | Rufus Olivier (Principal) / Daniel MacNeill / Michael Severance |
| Contrabassoon | Michael Severance |
| Horn | Kevin Rivard (Co-Principal) / Christopher Cooper (Co-Principal) / Keith Green / Brian McCarty / Lawrence Ragent |
| Trumpet | Adam Luftman (Principal) / Donald Kennelly / David Ridge |
| Trombone | Samuel Schlosser (Principal) / Donald Kennelly / David Ridge |
| Tuba/Cimbasso | Zachariah Spellman |
| Timpani | John Burgardt |
| Percussion | Richard Kvistad (Principal/Associate Timpani) / Patricia Niemi |
| Harp | Olga Rakitchenkov |
| Librarian | Carrie Weick / Timothy Spears (Assistant) |
| Orchestra Manager | Tracy David / Timothy Spears (Assistant) |