UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD: La bohème will be sung in Italian, with English subtitles.Īrrive early to enjoy a FREE PRE-OPERA TALK before each Lyric Opera performance at the Kauffman Center. The two lovers are finally reunited – and their love rekindled – by a tragic turn of a events that ultimate leaves one of them consumed by grief, and the other by consumption.Ĭ’est la vie. The merciless winter chill seeps and creeps through the couple’s drafty dwelling until it permeates their hearts, replacing hope and happiness with doubt and jealousy. It’s here, on a brisk, candlelit night, that a young seamstress loses her keys and finds the love of her life.
At the crossroads, an unrivaled romance sets bright bohemian rhapsodies against a tragic trajectory, blending into one of opera’s quintessential tearjerkers. Paris is for lovers…Puccini is for opera lovers. Librettists Luigi Illica & Giuseppe GiacosaĪpproximate running time is 2 hours, 40 minutes with two intermissions. Mack the Knife is the Man I Love: A Weill-Gershwin Cabaret.
We are in good hands with the “boss” of all thing French, Eric Ruf, who will deliver an original vision of Paris in the 19 th century, and young 31-year-old conductor Lorenzo Viotti who will whip up the infectious energy of the Orchestre National de France. The Mimi-Rodolfo pairing features the young Selene Zanetti, who has already excelled in this role in Venice, Stuttgart and Naples, and Samoan tenor Pene Pati, who was recently a great hit at the Opéra de Paris in L’Elixir d’amour, and as Romeo at the Opéra-Comique. Looking beyond realism, Puccini is above all a master of the art of creating an intense and richly lyrical melodic thread. Debussy himself declared: “I don’t know anyone who has described Paris in this era as well as Puccini in La Bohème”. The general public viewed it as a picture of a whole era, of Paris and of the young, carefree artistic students at the turn of the century. The version by Puccini created the frail figure of Mimi.
Adapted from Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henry Murger, which was serialised in the Parisian newspaper Le Corsaire between 18, it was performed shortly afterwards as a play at the Théâtre des Variétés.
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