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“A performance that deserved to fill the hall all day long. Skånskans opera critic Lars-Erik Larsson gives the highest marks to Malmö Opera and director Rodula Gaitanou's production of "La bohème"...

Malmö Opera's production of "La bohème", which premiered on Saturday, must be said to be the optimal opera performance. A well-known and beloved work, a consistent and high-class singing team, elaborate set design and costumes. Plus lots of "extra goodies". It was packed at the premiere and it deserves to be seen by packed houses the entire time it is being performed...

We can only continue with the praise: The direction was perfect. Each individual got their own special character and the crowd was truly a crowd. It was a performance in the best spoken theater style where the plot gripped the audience, something you don't see in most opera performances."
Skånska Dagbladet - Lars Erik Larsson

"Bohemians have been frozen throughout time. But the magnificent production of La Bohème at Malmö Opera warms. YA's reviewer is impressed:

The enormous width of the main stage has been used quite ingeniously in the stage design's intersection of studios and galleries with a lot of space to fill, as if floating above a brick wall. A place for meetings, longing, pain, the territory of opera. And of youth!”
Ystads Allehanda – Mattias Gejrot

"At Malmö Opera, the London-based director Rodula Gaitanou has chosen to move the action from 1830s Paris to 1960s Manhattan, where Andy Warhol is exhibiting at the cool Momus gallery…The bohemians' attic has become a few shabby rooms in a high-rise building with a facade colored in exhaust fumes… The musically close direction creates close contact between the notes and the acting. That the production so clearly, and so early, allows music to break a deadlock also becomes a hint of what it is that we in the audience are going to experience... Puccini's harmony and large-scale rhythm, Cordelia Chisholm's acoustically generous scenography and Rodula Gaitanou's placement of the singers in these rooms create the conditions for the catharsis that the singers will now achieve. This catharsis is the very point of “La bohème”, and when it comes, it no longer matters where or when the opera takes place. What happens, happens here and now. A room opens up where everything is both enigmatic and different. You want to laugh and cry and say that yes, yes, that’s exactly how it is!"
Sydsvenskan - Tobias Lund