Northern Ireland Opera announces the return of live opera performances with a unique and exhilarating new production of Puccini’s La Bohème this September. Watch conductor Rebecca Lang and ‘Rodolfo’ Noah Stewart talking to Pamela Ballantine on UTV Life about the production via this link(not available in all territories). ‘In The Studio’: BBC World Service – find out from Cameron Menzies and members of the creative team what it took to bring La Bohème to life in the Carlisle Memorial Church in Belfast via this link from 28th September.
Pandemics may come and go, but young love – and great opera – will never go out of fashion.’ Read full review here In years to come, NI opera’s staging of La Bohème will surely rank as one of the company’s greatest achievements, for reasons both musical and non-musical.
It has been an outstanding ensemble production, with Stewart and Summerfield in the lead roles giving towering performances of emotive heft. ‘A standing ovation greets the cast and NI Opera’s creative team. The shifting moods of the music were captured well and the emotional set piece numbers were powerful without being overly sentimental.’ Read full review here Lang’s tempi seemed spot on to me and I was struck by her eye to detail. ‘Noah Stewart, gave a dramatically convincing portrayal of the love-struck Rodolfo… soprano Gemma Summerfield gave an assured performance in the role of Mimì perfectly capturing the alluring and frail qualities of the character in equal measure… Rebecca Lang and her reduced band of instrumentalists did an excellent job bringing Puccini’s wonderful score to life. ‘La bohème: Well-paced and rewarding night at the opera’ Read full review here “Northern Ireland Opera comes back to life with Puccini… this is an admirably atmospheric and lively show, updated to the 1920s and staged by NI Opera’s new artistic director Cameron Menzies.” Read full review here
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