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Puccini: La Bohème

"Giacomo Puccini's opera live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on December 12th, 2017"

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.

Top Cast

  • Nicole Car

    Nicole Car

    Mimì

  • Atalla Ayan

    Atalla Ayan

    Rodolfo

  • Artur Ruciński

    Artur Ruciński

    Marcelo

  • Alessio Arduini

    Alessio Arduini

    Schaunard

  • Roberto Tagliavini

    Roberto Tagliavini

    Colline

  • Aida Garifullina

    Aida Garifullina

    Musetta

  • Gustavo Dudamel

    Gustavo Dudamel

    Conductor

  • Paris National Opera Orchestra

    Paris National Opera Orchestra

Overview

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.

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