La Bohème

53 VIP seats with post-performance reception
£43/£30 / £10 children (under 16)

This event has numbered seating – book early to get the best seats! 

Make it a night to remember with VIP seats and a post performance reception at which there will an opportunity to meet the cast.

The opera will be moved to Dorchester Abbey if wet. 

When you book your seat in the garden the seat comments will tell you where it will be in the Abbey.

Why not consider becoming a Festival Friend?  

You get to book 2 weeks before the box office officially opens and get free drink tokens and access to a front seat section for other tiered pricing Abbey Festival events.

If you have tickets for the performance you are welcome to picnic by the river from 2pm

Puccini’s La Bohème

Join them in the beautiful surroundings of the Dorchester Manor House garden to enjoy one of the most popular operas worldwide, performed for us by Regents Opera.

Cast :
Mimi : Christine Buras
Rodolfo: Davide Basso
Marcello: Sam Pantcheff
Musetta: Leila Alexander
Schaunard: Ashley Mercer
Colline: Geoff Clapham
Benoit / Alcindoro: Andrew Tinkler

Musical Director Ben Woodward
Revival Director Eleanor Strutt
Director: Sasha Regan
Design/Costumes: Reuben Speed

Regents Opera (est. 2011) is a leading fringe Opera Company specialising in the larger works of the 19th & 20th centuries.

he world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the .  The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as “la bohème“) of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.

The opera is in two 45 minute Acts with an interval during which drinks will be sold.

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