LA BOHÈME

Longborough Festival Opera

Conductor: Alice Farnham
Director: Sarah Fahie
Set & Costume Designer: Sarah Beaton
Lighting Designer: Colin Grenfell
Assistant Conductor: Olivia Shotton
Assistant Director: Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol
Costume Supervisor: Kate Hemstock
Assistant Costume Supervisors: Katherine Watt and Abigail Cavwood
Head of Wardrobe: Juliette Head
Wardrobe Assistant: Aimee Mav Allison
Rèpètiteur and Chorus Master: Erika Gundesen
Photography: Matthew Williams-Ellis

“Sarah Beaton’s gloriously flexible designs throughout the opera allowed the Café to be created at the flick of a trestle, and there was space for a wonderful phalanx of 36 assorted children, fussily marshalled by the Quality Street-clad Maria Jagusz, coveting the wares of the marionette-clad toyseller Parpignol (Tobias Campos Santinaque), and marvelling at the curfew marchpast  (sadly unseen) of the militia..” – Midlands Classical Music Making

“Sarah Beaton’s design is spare but highly effective. The initial impression of the stage set is that the action is set in an atelier rather than an artist’s garret. However, this is misleading, because the atelier is part of a novel prelude which sketches out Mimi’s background and which promptly transforms into a garret as the first notes of the overture are heard.... every scenery change is effective” – British Theatre Guide