Olivier Awards 2018 - La Bohème nominated for Best New Opera
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.