The premiere of La Bohème from the Salzburger Festspiele will be live broadcast on ORF 2 and ZDF

The premiere of Puccini's La Boheme on 1. August 2012 from Salzburger Festspiele, starring Anna Netrebko as Mimi and Piotr Beczala as Rodolfo, will be broadcast on ORF 2 at 20:15 and Ö1 at 19:30. German TV channel ZDF will broadcast this performance on 2. Aug 2012 at 22:15. 

PROGRAM DETAIL
Giacomo Puccini • La bohème

Opera in four acts
Text by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger (1822–1861)
New production
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Co-production with Shanghai Grand Theatre

LEADING TEAM
Daniele Gatti, Conductor
Damiano Michieletto, Stage Director
Paolo Fantin, Set Design
Carla Teti, Costume Design
Martin Gebhardt, Lighting
Kathrin Brunner, Dramaturgy
Ernst Raffelsberger, Chorus Master

CAST
Piotr Beczala, Rodolfo, a poet
Anna Netrebko, Mimì
Massimo Cavalletti, Marcello, a painter
Nino Machaidze, Musetta
Alessio Arduini, Schaunard, a musician
Carlo Colombara, Colline, a philosopher
Davide Fersini, Benoît, their landlord
Peter Kálmán, Alcindoro, a state councillor
Steven Forster, Parpignol

Vienna Philharmonic Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera
Chorus Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir