Anna Netrebko: La Bohème, Royal Theater, Copenhagen 16. Dec 2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

La Bohème, Royal Theater, Copenhagen 16. Dec 2010

Copenhagen, Thursday 16. December 2010. House debut of Anna Netrebko at the Royal Theater singing the role of Mimi in Puccini's "La Bohème". The Russian diva sings only in 2 peformances, the first one being the premiere on 16. December and the second one, the second performance of the run on 19. December. Sharing the stage with Anna Netrebko are the young and promising danish tenor Peter Lodahl as Rodolfo, Gisela Stille as Musetta, Palle Knudsen as Marcello, Thomas Storm as Schaunard and Ludvig Lindström as Colline, in the main roles.

Anna Netrebko arrived to Copenhagen on 14. December 2010. She came from Moscow where she had performed in a concert at the Kremlin with Erwin Schrott on 13. December 2010. On 15. December Anna joined the rest of the cast in the final dress rehearsal at the Royal Theater. After the dress rehearsal she gave a press conference, together with Peter Lodahl, Gisela Stille and Palle Knudsen.

Mimi has become one of Anna Netrebko's signature roles. She made her role debut as Mimi in an unforgetteable peformance at the Mariinsky Theater of St. Petersburg on 3. January 2006, with Rolando Villazón, making his opera house debut, as Rodolfo and Valery Gergiev conducting for the first time ever this Puccini's masterpiece. Since this outstanding performance in St. Petersburg, Anna Netrebko has sung this role at the Met in New York, Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Philharmonie and Bayerische Staatsoper in München and Wiener Staatsoper in Wien.

La Bohème

Music by Giacomo Puccini

Text in Italian by Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica, based on Henry Murger's novel "Scènes de la Vie de Bohème"

Royal Theater, Copenhagen 16. December 2010

Musical Director: Marc Piollet

Stage Director: Mikael Melbye

Set designer: Mikael Melbye

Costume designer: Mikael Melbye

Mimi: Anna Netrebkoª

Musetta: Gisela Stille

Rodolfo: Peter Lodahl

Marcello: Palle Knudsen