9, Bruckner’s Te Deum, and Janàček’s The Eternal Gospel, among others. He has sung at international festivals throughout the world, performing in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Beethoven’s Symphony No.

Vasiliev is a frequent concert soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Grand-Théâtre de Genève, Opera Australia, and others. Originally trained as a choral conductor in Moscow, his repertoire includes the Duke in Rigoletto, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Romeo in Romeo et Juliette, the title role in Faust, Alfredo in La traviata, Vladimir in Prince Igor, and Nemorino in The Elixir of Love. Tenor Georgy Vasiliev returns to the Lyric in La bohème, most recently seen here as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (2018). This project is supported in part by the City of Kansas City, Missouri Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund. The pre-opera speaker for La bohème is Prof. Pre-opera talks start one hour before curtain and last about 30 minutes. UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD: La bohème will be sung in Italian, with English subtitles.Īrrive early to enjoy a FREE PRE-OPERA TALK before each Lyric Opera performance at the Kauffman Center.

The two lovers are finally reunited – and their love rekindled – by a tragic turn of a events that ultimate leaves one of them consumed by grief, and the other by consumption.Ĭ’est la vie. The merciless winter chill seeps and creeps through the couple’s drafty dwelling until it permeates their hearts, replacing hope and happiness with doubt and jealousy. It’s here, on a brisk, candlelit night, that a young seamstress loses her keys and finds the love of her life. At the crossroads, an unrivaled romance sets bright bohemian rhapsodies against a tragic trajectory, blending into one of opera’s quintessential tearjerkers.

Paris is for lovers…Puccini is for opera lovers. Librettists Luigi Illica & Giuseppe GiacosaĪpproximate running time is 2 hours, 40 minutes with two intermissions. Mack the Knife is the Man I Love: A Weill-Gershwin Cabaret.

La boheme opera with english subtitles