This performance was eventually released on records and on Compact Disc. In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. According to Operabase, it is the fourth most frequently performed opera worldwide. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas internationally. The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini. The March 5 performance will take place at Hafren, Newtown and will be followed by eight subsequent performances around Wales with the final one coming on March 29 at The Octagon in Yeovil.La bohème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. Perhaps I’ll conduct it again when I’m 78,” said Mid Wales Opera Music Director Jonathan Lyness. I conducted La bohème for the first time aged 28 in a venue somewhat smaller than the Teatro Regio – the tiny Italianate cloisters of Iford Manor in Wiltshire in one of that venue’s earliest summer opera seasons. Fifty years later, aged 78, Toscanini conducted it again in a famous performance with New York’s NBC Symphony Orchestra. “’La bohème,’ Puccini’s fourth opera, was premiered in February 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
Jonathan Lyness will conduct the Ensemble Cymru in his reduced orchestration with an English translation provided by Richard Studer, who will also direct.
Dan D’Souza, Emyr Wn Jones, and Wyn Pencarreg will round out the cast as Shaunard, Colline, and Benoit / Alcindoro / Customs Office, respectively. The famed Puccini masterpiece will star tenor Robyn Lyn Evans as Rodolfo, soprano Galina Averina as Mimì, baritone Philip Smith as Marcello, and soprano Mari Wyn Williams as Musetta. Mid Wales Opera is set to present “La Bohème” starting on March 5, 2022.
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