Rodolfo’s companions in artistic poverty are the painter Marcello, sung by Andrew Jones, while Richard Anderson and Shane Lowrencev reprise their roles as Colline the philosopher and Schaunard the eccentric musician respectively.
In this tragic tale of first love, Natalie Aroyan plays the consumptive seamstress Mimi, while Yosep Kang sings Rodolfo, her confused and fickle lover. So while we might research the late 1920s period, we’ve actually stripped away her costume quite a bit.”īy appealing to both the traditional opera buff and a younger crowd, Gale’s production of La Bohème is giving Puccini’s breathtakingly beautiful score a refreshing, new appeal.Gail Edwards’ much lauded production of La Bohème returns to open Opera Australia’s Summer Season with some new cast members and some familiar faces. She doesn’t have any money but what Rodolfo falls immediately in love with is her natural beauty. We tried to show a really beautiful simplicity. It’s got a bit of a smock quality, but it’s got a sexier look about it,” she explains. Artist’s smocks aren’t particularly sexy, but that’s what a lot of painters wore, so in our case Marcello wears a big canvas coat.
“For instance, with Marcello I looked at a lot of artists in the 1920s and actually wore a lot of artist’s smocks. This included building a deconstructed spiegeltent for the set.Īs for the costumes, they “end up being elements of many references,” Lynch says.
try to create something that justifies all that expenditure and effort to put a new production on,” she says. “There is a lot of money being spent to bring this new production into life. Working alongside set designer Brian Thomson and lighting designer John Rayment in her ninth production with Gale, Julie has had the rare chance to work with little financial limitation. Antoinette Halloran will take the role of Mimi later in the season, while David Corcoran will make his role debut as Rodolfo at the same time. The program features a cast of young, international opera stars: American soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart – grand-niece of Tina Turner and Muddy Waters – plays Mimi the beautiful seamstress, while award winning South Korean tenor Ji-Min Park plays her lover, the poet Rodolfo. Taking inspiration from various sources, she has given the often lavish and expensive world of opera a touch of Depression-era grunge and contemporary sex appeal. It’s an age-old story of romance and suffering that Gale has updated for a contemporary audience. Puccini set his opera amongst a group of young friends – a poet, a writer, a composer and an artist – living in poverty, a revolutionary idea at the time of its conception. Renowned Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème commences its debut season at the Arts Centre in Melbourne this week via Weimar-era Berlin under the direction of Gale Edwards.
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