Mimì – Mariangela Sicilia
Musetta – Olga Peretyatko
Rodolfo – Vittorio Grigolo
Marcello – Massimo Cavalletti
Colline – Adolfo Corrado
Schaunard – Alberto Petricca
Benoît – Claudio Ottino
Alcindoro – Stefano Marchisio
Parpignol – Nicola Pamio
Un sergente dei doganieri – Lorenzo Barbieri
Un doganiere – Luigi Cirillo
Mimì – Valeria Sepe
Musetta – Elisa Balbo
Rodolfo – Freddie de Tommaso
Marcello – Luca Micheletti
Colline – Adolfo Corrado
Schaunard – Alberto Petricca
Benoît – Claudio Ottino
Alcindoro – Stefano Marchisio
Parpignol – Nicola Pamio
Un sergente dei doganieri – Lorenzo Barbieri
Un doganiere – Luigi Cirillo
Mimì – Mariangela Sicilia
Musetta – Maria Novella Malfatti
Rodolfo – Stefan Pop
Marcello – Massimo Cavalletti
Colline – Gianluca Buratto
Schaunard – Alberto Petricca
Benoît – Claudio Ottino
Alcindoro – Stefano Marchisio
Parpignol – Nicola Pamio
Un sergente dei doganieri – Lorenzo Barbieri
Un doganiere – Luigi Cirillo
Opera in four acts
Booklet by
Giuseppe Giacosa e Luigi Illica
from the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger
Music by
Giacomo Puccini
First performance Turin, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896
Principal conductor and orchestra conductor
Antonino Fogliani
Directed by Ettore Scola
filmed by Marco Scola di Mambro
Scenes Luciano Ricceri
Costumes Cristina Da Rold
Lights Valerio Alfieri
Orchestra, Choir and Children’s Choir of the Puccini Festival
Choirmaster: Marco Faelli
Children’s Choir Director: Sonia Franzese
The story follows the lives of a group of young artists: the poet Rodolfo, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard and the philosopher Colline. They live in a modest flat in Paris, struggling with poverty but full of dreams and hopes.
In the first act, Rodolfo meets Mimì, a young seamstress, and the two fall in love. Their love story is sweet and passionate, but it is also marked by fragility, as Mimì suffers from an illness that will bring her to a tragic end.
In the following acts, we see their love grow and face life’s difficulties. Marcello has a tumultuous relationship with Musetta, another young woman in the group, who brings some liveliness and drama to the story. Bohemian life is characterised by moments of joy and celebration, but also by sadness and loss.
The opera culminates in a heartbreaking finale, where Mimì’s illness worsens and Rodolfo must face the reality of his loss.
