Opening Tonight! La Boheme

Opera Theater of Connecticut presents Puccini's La Bohème on Tuesday, August 5, Thursday, August 7 and Saturday, August 9 at 7:30pm and Sunday, August 10 at 6pm at the air-conditioned Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main Street, Clinton. The production is fully-staged, sung in Italian with English supertitles for enhanced audience appreciation and accompanied by orchestra.

La Bohème is Puccini's most famous and popular opera, as well as one of the most performed operas in the repertoire. This operatic masterpiece, captures the joy of youth—with laughter, zeal and flowering love affairs—only to have it fade away into tragedy, all accompanied by some of the most moving and memorable music of all time; its passion and emotion heightened in the Andrews Memorial Theater’s intimate space. This production is supported, in part, by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Essex Savings Bank, and the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Under the leadership of General Director Kate Ford, Opera Theater of Connecticut’s artistic team of Production Director Alan Mann and Music Director Kyle Swann will work with one of the finest ensembles brought together in the state for this spectacular presentation. 

The cast features Shannon Kessler Dooley as Mimì, the opera’s tragic heroine and Lisa Williamson as the flirtatious Musetta, with Joshua Kohl as the Parisian poet Rodolfo and Maksìm Ivanov as the mercurial Marcello. Aaron Sorensen and Ryan Burns debut with Opera Theater as the sardonic and cynical Colline and the wily young Schaunard. Laurentiu Rotaru does double duty in the comic roles of Benoît and Alcindoro and Spencer Hamlin livens the stage as the children’s favorite character, Parpignol, all accompanied by Opera Theater of Connecticut’s wonderful orchestra, chorus and children’s chorus.

Tickets, which are $45.00 for adult admission, $40.00 for seniors 65 and over, and $35.00 for under 18, can be reserved by contacting Opera Theater of Connecticut at 860-669-8999 or can be ordered through the web at www.operatheaterofct.org. Boxed suppers, prepared by Chips’ Pub III and served on the theater lawn next to the scenic Indian River an hour before the show, are $15 and are reserved through Opera Theater of Connecticut.

Relax for a half hour and learn a bit more about the opera and its composer from Artistic Director Alan Mann by attending Opera Talk—an informal discussion about the show which starts an hour and 30 minutes before curtain time. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased on the day of performance.

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