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Dateline: 26th September, 2010
ENO Revives Miller's Bohème Jonathan Miller’s 2009 staging of Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the London Coliseum this October. Miller’s association with Engpish National Opera stretches back thirty years and has produced some of his and the Company’s most successful productions including The Mikado - which returns to the ENO stage in February to celebrate the production’s 25th Anniversary year - and Rigoletto. In this production, following his ENO debut in 2009, Stephen Lord returns to direct a cast including Elizabeth Llewellyn making her stage debut as Mimì, and Gwyn Hughes Jones and Alfie Boe sharing the role of Rodolfo. Working with designer Isabella Bywater, Jonathan Miller set this tragic tale of young artists and doomed love in 1930s Paris, the era of the depression. Together they have created an unsentimental view of bohemian life, of depravity and squalor, populated by the demi-monde (Miller’s ‘true bohemians’). The set design draws inspiration from the realism and atmosphere caught in the sepia-tinted photographs of Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï and Kertész, as well as being influenced by films from the 1930s, such as Hôtel du Nord and Atalante. The creative team is completed by lighting designer Jean Kalman. Joining Llewellyn, Hughes Jones and Boe are members of the cast of 2009, Roland Wood and Pauls Putninš, and newcomers to the production George von Bergen, Simon Butteriss and Richard Angas.
La Bohème opens at the London Coliseum on 18th October for thirteen performances – 18th, 20th, 28th, 30th October, 3rd, 5th, 12th, 18th, 25th November & 22nd, 25th, 27th January at 7.30pm and 23tf October at 6.30pm.
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