The production of Nina Chusova offered the “Gold of the Rhine” and “Valkyrie” Wagner last season, the Mariinsky Theater returns to one of the most popular Italian operas - “Bohemia” by Puccini. This opera is famous not only for beautiful music, but also by a touching plot without intrigues, murders and funny conventions inherent in the genre. Unfortunately, in the interpretation of the conductor of Italian Gianandrea Koneda there are a lot of fuss and false pathos, but there is no temperament, sincerity and sensuality, without which the Italian opera is unthinkable. It remains to hope for the English director Iana Jaja. He transferred the action of the opera in the 30s of the twentieth century, taking advantage of Pigaso Parisian motifs.
Mariinsky Theater, November 30