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*Encore Opera Boheme 5:17:19 ENCORE OPERA FOUNDED BY STEVE SCHWARTZ For May 17, 2019 FAC T S & FAC T O I D S by GENE MARTIN This Week’s Program Fact: The new 2019 Schedule forEncore Opera is out. You will get one in the mail La Boheme or delivered; as always, copies will be at with English Subtitles the table for the opera. The big change is ————- Runtime: 125 minutes • Filmed live in 1982 that the astonishing new Lucia will be on restored, remastered DVD released 2009 June 28 to precede the “old” one July 12. by Deutsche Grammophon • MPAA not rated La Traviata will replace the second Lucia ASIN: B002LL13BQ on Oct. 11 and Oct. 4 will be the “Making of Lucia,” a film about Natalie Dessay’s NOTES by STEVE SCHWARTZ preparation for the role. La Boheme is one of the two or three Factoid: More information about the most often mounted operas in the benefit concert for Bel Cantanti. Although repertory. From the day it premiered in Live Opera Highlights will be our sponsor, 1894 to today, not a week has gone by the program will be a series of art songs when La Boheme was not performed in that tell a story with a narrator and a some opera house somewhere. It has all ballet dancer to help convey the love the necessary ingredients for success in the story with happy ending. More to come genre: a tragic love story, humor in the NEXT FRIDAY form of brief scenes of frivolity which are Just like the weather here, we go from La interrupted by the main driving force of the Boheme’s winter to Elixir’s summer in just story: the pathos of doomed young lovers, a week. On May 24th we have The Elixir and, most of all, Puccini’s glorious music of Love version with the “hot” couple Anna with some of his most memorable melodies Netrebko and Rolando Villazon. He sings and harmonies. so well he does an encore during the The story it tells is almost banal. performance… she is as great as always! The characteristics of the major players PRINCIPAL CAST are set at the outset, they do not develop (in credits order) or grow in any way. They interact briefly; Mimi: Teresa Stratas two fall in love and one dies. The others Musetta: Renata Scotto continue their Bohemian lives as before. Rodolfo: José Carreras That’s a story? Yes, when you add Marcello: Richard Stilwell Puccini’s evocative music to the wit and Schaunard: Allan Monk pathos we get from his librettists, Luigi Colline: James Morris Illica and Giuseppi Giacosa. They take Benoit/Alcindoro: Italo Tajo hold of your emotions with the opening James Levine conducts the Metropolitan scene, which starts with humor and ends Opera Orchestra and Chorus with romance, and never let go. Page !1 of !6 THE PLOT The men attack it with gusto and Two threads run through the story: don’t even listen to his humorous (i) the artists are painfully poor, and (ii) explanation. They debate how best to it’s winter and the cold imposes itself use the cash he also brought. Suddenly, harshly on their poverty-filled lives. We Benoit (bass), the landlord, knocks at know the romance will be agonizingly the door. This is serious, for they owe brief and tragic. We know too that there him several months’ rent, which they will be few dry eyes in the house when don’t have. They get him drunk and get the final curtain falls. him to admit he has been unfaithful to his wife. This allows them to feign being Act One opens with our hero, shocked, and righteously they throw him Rodolfo (tenor) on stage with his fellow out. Bohemian, Marcello (baritone). Rodolfo is a poet and as we quickly learn not a Since it’s Christmas Eve, the men very successful one. Marcello is a painter decide to blow the rest of Schaunard’s with a similar career history In Act Two money on an evening out at the Café the weather plays no part, except that Momus, which is nearby. But, Rodolfo it’s Christmas Eve. Act Three is set at stays behind intending to finish his article. the city gates of Paris. To emphasize the Once alone, he hears another knock at the cold, Puccini has it snowing. In Act Four, door. He answers, and there in the our heroine, Mimi (soprano) returns to doorway stands a beautiful young woman, the garret. She dies while warming her our heroine Mimi (soprano). Her candle cold hands in a newly purchased muff. has blown out, and in the unlit hallway, she needs to light the way to her own room. ACT ONE Rodolfo is an ardent young man. To open his opera, Puccini treats us We’re in Paris. This is opera! Can you to about twenty minutes of humorous doubt that love will quickly appear? play among the four men. As the curtain rises, Marcello is struggling to paint As Mimi enters, she emits a cough Moses crossing the Red Sea, but, he tells that we know is more than just a cough. Rodolfo, his fingers are so cold he can no Rudolfo lights her candle. But Mimi longer feel his brush. Rodolfo is trying drops her latchkey. (!) And, her candle without success to write an article for a goes out again. (!) Now Rodolfo knows local newspaper to earn a few francs. an opportunity when it hits him in the eye. He quickly blows out his own Two other young men who live in candle. It’s night, the moon is their only the garret soon arrive. Colline (basso) source of light. Although he finds the is a ‘philosopher’ (he reads a lot). He key quickly he pretends to continue the was out, trying unsuccessfully to pawn search. Searching for the key, their some of his books so they could buy hands touch, and with a single chord something to eat. Finally, Schaunard from the orchestra, the magic of opera (baritone) who is a musician, arrives with takes over and we are swept away with good news. He came into an accidental romantic opera at its absolute best, three windfall and has brought home that of Puccini’s most glorious arias in a row. magical commodity: FOOD! Page !2 of !6 First Rodolfo introduces himself with one Amidst the hubbub and humor, we of the most famous tenor arias in the see a subtext when Rodolfo purchases a repertory: “Che gelida manina” (how pink bonnet for Mimi. Puccini uses it in frozen is your hand) in which he tells her Act Three, and with far greater effect in he is a penniless poet who nevertheless the last act, when he uses it to help tear considers himself a millionaire, for his life our hearts out just before Mimi dies. is filled with dreams of castles in the air. Our players settle at a table and But now he finds that he has been exchange good-natured banter. We meet robbed of even those riches by a pair of the other starring soprano role in the sparkling eyes. (I ask you, how much opera Musetta, a champion flirt, and more romantic can a poet get than that?) Marcello’s true love (on and off) for some He finishes by asking his pretty time. While she loves Marcello as much young visitor to tell him about herself. as he loves her, she’s unwilling to settle She responds with an almost as famous for the poverty he offers. She came to and equally enchanting aria: “Mi the Café Momus with her latest sugar chiamano Mimi” (they call me Mimi, daddy, Alcindoro, sees Marcello and at although my name is Lucia). She is a once initiates a sensational display that seamstress who ekes out a meager living makes her the center of attention. sewing artificial flowers. It’s an okay She caps it off with her aria ”Quando existence, she says, but her real menvo soletta per la via” (whenever I walk happiness comes in springtime, when the down the street). (It’s a melody most of sun warms the earth and she can smell you know, if not from the opera then from the perfume of real flowers. (Listen to its having been made into a pop song how Puccini has the orchestra swell to entitled “Don’t You Know”. Operaphiles pluck at your emotions as she sings those usually refer to as “Musetta’s Waltz”.) In words, evoking thoughts of young love.) this show-stopper, she brags that After replying to his friends who are whenever she walks out in public, her calling to him from outside, Rodolfo and beauty invariably attracts everyone’s Mimi decide to join them in the third duet attention. Of course, it’s an ego trip for of the act: “O suava fanciulla” (Oh gentle her, but her aria is really intended to goad young maid). The couple, already in love, poor Marcello into a fit of jealousy. And leave to join the others. As they wend boy does she succeed! As he struggles in their way downstairs, we hear from afar, a vain effort to keep from rising to her the strains of the two young lovers bait, one of his lines is ‘tie me to the chair’. exchanging their first vows. (And, if you’re As the act ends, the four young men at all like me, you’re already choked up.) and their two lady companions all leave ACT TWO together in a decidedly happy mood.
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