With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.
From the Met: "'La Bohème' — the passionate, timeless, 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 (even to those new to opera) and to reveal previously unnoticed 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 explores 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, Luigi Illica
CAST
Marcello: David Bizic
Rodolfo: Stephen Costello
Colline: Alexander Köpeczi
Schaunard: Iurii Samoilov
Benoit: Donald Maxwell
Mimì: Juliana Grigoryan
Parpignol: Gregory Warren
Alcindoro: Donald Maxwell
Musetta: Mané Galoyan
Customhouse Sergeant: Jonathan Scott
Customhouse Officer: Ned Hanlon
