Our production of La Bohéme at the Trafalgar Studios as part of the King's Head Theatre West End season has been nominated for Best New Opera at the Olivier Awards! | 6 December 2017 - 6 January 2018
Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Becca Marriott's reinterpretation of Puccini's classic La bohème is set in present-day East London and delves into the lives and loves of Mimi, Musetta, Ralph and Mark. The production lays bare the damaging effects of co-dependent relationships against a backdrop of spiralling rents and social media. Conducted by Panaretos Kryiatzidis.
cast
Matthew Kimble & Roger Paterson - Ralph
Matthew Palmer & Thomas Isherwood - Mark
Becca Marriott & Lizzie Holmes - Mimi
Lizzie Holmes & Honey Rouhani - Musetta
“Sensitively portrayed, well-focused with light-hearted comedy”
Lizzie Holmes performing Mimi's Act I aria with Elspeth Wilkes, piano & William Rudge, cello.