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Based On

"Scènes de la vie de bohème" by Henri Mürger

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
Language
Italian
Sung Language
Italian
Supertitles
English
Co-Producer
Co-production of San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Canadian Opera Company
Archive ID
SFO_2024_02

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Revival Director
Katherine M. Carter(SFO debut)
Production Designer
Lighting Design
Chorus Director
Assistant Conductor
Prompter
Musical Preparation
Dimitri Dover(SFO debut)
Ji Youn Lee(SFO debut; 2025 Adler Fellow)
Diction
Nicolò Sbuelz(SFO debut)
Supertitles
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Fight Director
Technical Supervisor
Costume Supervisor
Hair and Makeup

Cast

Marcello
Lucas Meachem(6/3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 19)
Will Liverman(SFO debut; 6/13, 18, 21)
Rodolfo
Pene Pati(6/3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 19)
Evan LeRoy Johnson(6/13, 18, 21)
Colline
Bogdan Talos(SFO debut)
Schaunard
Samuel Kidd(2025 Adler Fellow)
Benoît
Mimì
Karen Chia-ling Ho(6/3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 19)
Nicole Car(6/13, 18, 21)
Prune Vendor
Parpignol
Musetta
Andrea Carroll(SFO debut; 6/3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 19)
Brittany Renee(6/13, 18, 21)
Alcindoro
Customhouse Sergeant
Customhouse Officer
Nikolas Nackley(SFO debut)

Show Dates

Streaming Information

Live stream 6/10/2025, 7:30 pm.  The on demand period starts on June 16 at 10am PT and ends June 18 at 10am PT.

Time and Place

TIME AND PLACE: Mid-nineteenth-century Paris

Scenes

Act I: A garret
Act II: The Latin Quarter
Intermission
Act III: A city gate, the Barrière d'Enfer
Act IV: The garret

Media

Sponsors

This production is made possible, in part, by Jerome & Thao Dodson, Bertie Bialek Elliott, Staffan & Margareta Encrantz, John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn, J. Burgess Jamieson (in memoriam) & Elizabeth Jamieson, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, and Dianne & Tad Taube.

Ramón Tebar’s appearance is made possible by the Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Conductors Fund.

Karen Chia-ling Ho, Evan LeRoy Johnson, Brittany Renee, Will Liverman, Pene Pati, and Andrea Carroll’s appearances are made possible by a gift to the Emerging Stars Fund by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem.

Notes

To access the full production program, click the PDF link above.

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Students, townspeople, shopkeepers, street vendors, soldiers, waiters, children

Additional Notes

The children singing in this production are members of the San Francisco Girls and Boys Choruses (listed on page 58 of the attached program). The San Francisco Girls Chorus is led by Artistic Director Valérie Sainte-Agathe and The San Francisco Boys Chorus is led by Intermediate Chorus Director Todd Jolly.