Opera Bohemia opera every year since 2010. In that first Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of La Bohème, Mimi was played by international star Pumeza Matshikiza. For Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 2012 another international star, Australian soprano Suzanne Shakespeare, performed Lucia. Other operas in Opera Bohemia's repertoire to date are Puccini's La Bohème, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitor and Puccini's Gianni Schicci. Regular lead performers include the soprano Catriona Clark and, Alastair Digges (tenor) and Douglas Nairne (baritone). Digges and Nairne are also music directors for the productions, most of which are directed by John Wilkie, Opera Bohemia has received Creative
Mimi Lerner Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Washington National Opera. She appeared on the international stage at La Scala, the Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Glyndebourne Festival. She died in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland from complications of a heart tumor, which had been diagnosed a dozen years earlier. She was 61 years old. Mimi Lerner Mimi Lerner (May 20, 1945 — March 29, 2007) was a Polish-American mezzo-soprano and later head of the voice department at Carnegie Mellon University. Lerner was born Emilia Lipczer in Sambir, Ukraine,