Gulfshore Opera to Showcase Live ‘La Bohème’ Performance

By David Salazar

Gulfshore Opera is set to present Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center in Naples, Florida on Jan. 24, 2021.

The production, which will be directed by Josh Shaw and conducted by Greg Ritchey, is inspired by the impressionist art movement of France in the late 1800s. Designs for the four main Bohemians in the opera were inspired by Van Gogh portraits.

“’La Bohème’ is a timeless story with themes as relevant today, as they were in the original setting. In the late 1880s Paris was filled with a concentration of larger than life artistic characters — Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and others,” stated Shaw in a press release. “In our production, we are imagining our bohemian lovers as moving in the same circles as the great Impressionist artists who rebelled against classical subject matter and embraced modernity, creating works that reflected the world in which they lived. The colorful style of Van Gogh offers a vibrant canvas on which to paint Puccini’s masterpiece in a heightened, but believable setting.”

The opera will star Peter Lake, Sara Tucker, Kenneth Stavert, Chelsea Lehnea, Andrew Pardini, Tyler Putnam, Andrew Allan Hiers, Christopher Waite, Salomon Cardenas, and Joseph Brauer.

The company will be enforcing several safety measures including social distancing and face-covering at all times.

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