La Bohème

It has long been a yearly tradition of our festival: an opera in concert form, presented by a first-class cast and the "in-house" orchestra, which just two days later will carry the flames of great operatic drama to the prestigious stage of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. For the staging of Puccini's La bohème this summer, the festival is particularly fortunate to have secured the currently most sought-after tenor in the opera world for the role of Rodolfo: the Franco-Swiss Benjamin Bernheim, trained by Gary Magby at the Haute école de musique de Lausanne – and now celebrated on all the great stages of the world. At his side: the captivating Carolina López Moreno, with Bolivian-Albanian roots, as well as the Franco-American soprano Sandra Hamaoui, with whom Bernheim tied the knot in the south of France last summer.

Carolina Lopez Moreno, soprano (Mimi)

Benjamin Bernheim, tenor (Rodolfo)

Sandra Hamaoui, soprano (Musetta)

Lodovico Filippo Ravizza, baritone (Marcello)

Biagio Pizzuti, baritone (Schaunard)

Gianluca Burrato, bass (Colline)

Roberto Abbondanza, baritone (Benoît & Alcindoro)

Chorus of the Bern stage

Gstaad Festival Orchestra

Marco Armiliato, conductor

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

“La bohème”, opera in 4 acts (1896) – performance in concert version

150' (including intermission)