La Bohème
An opera in four acts
10th June 2017
San Francisco Opera, California
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 |
| Fight Director | Dave Maier |
| Assistant Conductor | Christopher Ocasek |
| Prompter | Fabrizio Corona |
| Répétiteurs | John Churchwell / Noah Lindquist / Fabrizio Corona |
| Supertitles by | John Caird |
| Assistant Directors | Shawna Lucey |
| Stage Manager | Jodi Gage / Darin Burnett |
| Assistant Stage Managers | Sarah Bingel / Thea Railey / Andrew Landis / Jayme O'Hara / Jimmy Marcheso |
| Galen Till | Kristi Johnson |
| Head of Wig and Make-up | Jeanna Parham |
Cast
| in order of appearance: | |
| Marcello | Audun Iversen |
| Rodolfo | Arturo Chacón-Cruz |
| Colline | Scott Conner |
| Schaunard | Brad Walker |
| Benoît | Dale Travis |
| Mimì | Erika Grimaldi / Julie Adams |
| A Prune Vendor | Michael Jankosky |
| Parpignol | Colby Roberts |
| A child | BeaAlyssa Cortado |
| Musetta | Ellie Dehn |
| Alcindoro | Dale Travis |
| A Custom-House Sergeant | Bojan Kovežević |
| A Custom-House Officer | Torlef Borsting |
Corps Dancers
| Dance Master | Lawrence Pech |
| Dancers | Alysia Chang / Jamielyn Duggan / Lorena Feijóo / Blanche Hampton / Luke Lazzarro / Michael Levine / Rachel Speidel Little / Angela Dice Nguyen / Jeremy Rucker / Chiharu Shibata |
Chorus
| Regular Chorus | |
| Sopranos | Kathleen Bayler / Sara Colburn / Dvora Djoraev / Mary Finch / Claire Kelm / Elisabeth Rom Lucio / Angela Eden Moser / Rachelle Perry / Virginia Pluth / Carole Schaffer / Mitzie Kay Weiner |
| Mezzo-Sopranos | Buffy Baggott / Roberta Bowman / Janet Campbell / 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 / Michael Jankosky / Phillip Pickens / Chester Pidduck / Colby Roberts / Sigmund Seigel / Dan Stanley / Andrew Truett / Richard Walker |
| Baritones/Basses | Torlef Borsting / Christopher Filipowicz / Anders Fröhlich / Cameron Henley / Ken Johnson / David Kekuewa / Bojan Kovežević / Frederick Matthews / Willam O'Neill / William Pickersgill / Valery Portnov / Ken Rafanan / Joe Torkelsen |
| Extra Chorus | Elizabeth Baker / Jennifer Brody / Cheryl Cain / Katie Carlson / Kristin Clayton / Margaret Genovese / Silvie Jensen / Carolyne Anne Jordan / Eileen Meredith / Aimée Puentes / Whitney Steel / Nicole Takesono / Jacque Wilson / Kali Wilson / Ben Brady / Stephen Cannon / Adam Flowers / Peter Gigardôt / Patrick Hagen / Thomas Hart / Harlan Hays / Bradley Kynard / Michael P. Mendelsohn / Jim Meyer / Jim Monios / Jess G. Perry / Keith Perry / Samuel Rabinowitz / Pedro Rodelas / Karl Saarni / Jason Sarten / Alexander Taite / Michael Taylor / Nicholas Volkert |
Orchestra
| Music Director | Nicola Luisotti |
| Resident Conductor | Jordi Bernàcer |
| 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 / Marianne Wagner |
| 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) / Peter Myers (Assistant Principal) / Nora Pirquet / Emil Miland / Victoria Ehrlich / Ruth Lane |
| 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 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) / William Holmes / Scott Macomber / John Pearson |
| Trombone | Jeffrey Budin (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) |