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Mimì in New York
from 11th to 25th January
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How does it feel to be part of an exceptional project consisting of creativity, long-lastingness, beauty and emotions? It is a joy and an honour to take part in this adventure, Franco Zeffirelli's tale of La Bohème. Because, while Puccini's masterpiece is amongst those operas that are perfect and eternal, this staging by the Florentine stage director and set designer has been the best-loved by generations of opera enthusiasts ever since its first performance in 1963.
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They know this well at La Scala in Milan, where "that" Bohème, sixty years old, yet still fresh and heart-rending in its ability to put an end to carefree youth, reappeared on the programme in 2023 for the one-hundredth anniversary of Zeffirelli's birth; they know it well at the Metropolitan Opera too, where they continue to stage Zeffirelli's version, forty years after its first performance there. There is also a story within the story here, since La Bohème is the most frequently-performed opera at the Met, boasting approximately one thousand four hundred performances since that historic 9th November 1900, when the American audience first encountered this representation of the enchantment and disenchantment of youth and love, never before set to wonderfully aptly to music.
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I am about to sing again as Mimì at the Met for this first reprise of 2025, singing under conductors Kensho Watanabe (11th, 15th, 18th January) and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (22nd, 25th January). My Rodolfo will be Matthew Polenzani.
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