The Metropolitan Opera's 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues on March 8 with a live broadcast of "La Bohème," Giacomo Puccini's opera exploring the joys and sorrows of young love and Bohemian life in Paris. This performance marks the start of the second half of the Met's broadcast season, with Maestro Alexander Soddy conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
From the Met: "La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings.
"At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things — a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor — that make up our everyday lives."
Read the synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera.
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
CAST
Mimi: Kristina Mkhitaryan
Musetta: Brittany Renee
Rodolfo: Joseph Calleja
Marcello: Luca Micheletti
Schaunard: Sean Michael Plumb
Colline: Nicolas Testé
Benoit/Alcindoro: Donald Maxwell
