La Bohème - Opéra National de Paris

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Giuseppe GiacosaWriter
• Luigi IllicaWriter
• François RoussillonDirector
• Giacomo PucciniOriginal Music Composer
• Claus GuthDirector

Cast

• Atalla AyanRodolfo
• Artur RucińskiMarcello
• Alessio ArduiniSchaunard
• Roberto TagliaviniColline
• Nicole CarMimì
• Aida GarifullinaMusetta
• Antonel BoldanParpignol
• Marc LabonnetteAlcindoro
• Gustavo DudamelConductor
• Paris National Opera OrchestraCast

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