La Boheme
opera by G. Puccini
  • Dmitry Otyakovsky
    stage director
    Dmitry Bertman, the artistic director of the Helikon Opera theater, came up with an experimental project, inviting four directors to stage four acts of Puccini's La Boheme. I got the second act — a celebration in the Latin Quarter. My scenography with set designer Irina Sid transferred the action to a nightclub full of revelers and neon lights.

    The interaction of the four directors has become a special feature of this production. Despite everyone's desire to create a unique concept, we had to create a unified story with end-to-end dramaturgy and logic of character development. Fortunately, despite the heated discussions in the rehearsal process, we managed to create a performance that combines the difference of directorial approaches and a coherent narrative.
Cast:
Rodolfo — Sergey Ababkin, Shota Chibirov
Marcello — Dmitry Yankovsky, Konstantin Brzhinsky, Maxim Perebeynos
Schaunard — Alexander Bokarev, Nikolay Patsyuk
Colline — Georgy Ekimov, Alexey Dedov
Benoit, Alcindoro — Sergey Toptygin, Mikhail Guzhov
Mimi — Elizaveta Kulagina, Olga Tolkmit, Lydia Svetozarova
Musetta — Maya Barkovskaya, Elnara Mamedova, Yulia Shcherbakova
Parpignol — Mikhail Seryshev, Dmitry Ponomaryov
A Customs Sergeant— Andrey Orekhov, Alexey Egorov

Credits:
Composer — Giacomo Puccini
Libretto — Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
The artistic director and author of the project — Dmitry Bertman
Curator of designers — Rostislav Protasov
Set designer — Irina Sid
Costume designers — Fyodor Arkhipov, Elizaveta Kholmushina
Lighting Designer — Maxim Greller
Makeup artist — Natalia Blinkova
Choreographer — Ksenia Lisanskaya
Choirmaster — Evgeny Ilyin
Conductor — Philipp Selivanov
Stage directors — Dmitry Otyakovsky, Mikhail Sabelev, Laysan Safargulova, Elizaveta Korneeva

The premiere took place on September 28, 2022 at the Moscow Musical Theater Helikon-Opera
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