Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème
Sep 25 – Apr 29
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The world’s most popular opera, Puccini’s heartbreaking tragedy never fails to enrapture audiences with its poignant depiction of love and loss in bohemian Paris, all set to one of opera’s most romantic scores. Some of today’s most extraordinary talents inhabit the touchstone principal roles in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging, a perennial Met favorite for the past 45 years.
Production a gift of Mrs. Donald D. Harrington
Revival a gift of the Metropolitan Opera Club and Diane Pachetti
The Met gratefully acknowledges the support of Mastercard, the official payment partner of the Metropolitan Opera
The Met is grateful to C. Graham Berwind, III for sponsoring the refurbishment of the La Bohème sets
Sung In
Italian
Met Titles In
- English
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
Estimated Run Time
3 hrs 5 mins
House Opens
Acts I and II
60 mins
Intermission
35 mins
Act III
25 mins
Intermission
35 mins
Act IV
30 mins
Opera Ends
Cast
Conductor
Ramón Tebar
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 24, 28, 31
Conductor
Marco Armiliato
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Conductor
Daniele Rustioni
Performing
Apr 16, 17, 22, 24, 25, 29
Mimì
Juliana Grigoryan
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16
Mimì
Kristina Mkhitaryan
Performing
Oct 9, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31
Mimì
Federica Lombardi
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Mimì
Erika Grimaldi
Performing
Apr 16, 24
Mimì
Ermonela Jaho
Performing
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Musetta
Rosa Feola
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16
Musetta
Inna Demenkova
Performing
Oct 9, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31
Musetta
Heidi Stober
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Musetta
Anya Matanovic
Performing
Apr 16, 24
Musetta
Kathryn Lewek
Performing
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Rodolfo
Stephen Costello
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16
Rodolfo
Adam Smith
Performing
Oct 9, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31
Rodolfo
Atalla Ayan
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Rodolfo
Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Performing
Apr 16, 24
Rodolfo
Pene Pati
Performing
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Marcello
Hansung Yoo
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16
Marcello
Anthony Clark Evans
Performing
Oct 9, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31
Marcello
Lucas Meachem
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Marcello
Guriy Gurev
Performing
Apr 16, 24
Marcello
Adam Plachetka
Performing
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Schaunard
Gihoon Kim
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16
Schaunard
Ricardo José Rivera
Performing
Oct 9, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31
Schaunard
Nicola Alaimo
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Schaunard
Alexander Birch Elliott
Performing
Apr 16, 24
Schaunard
Germán Olvera
Performing
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Colline
Le Bu
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16
Colline
William Guanbo Su
Performing
Oct 9, 15, 22, 24, 28, 31
Colline
Alexandros Stavrakakis
Performing
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Colline
Scott Conner
Performing
Apr 16, 24
Colline
Adolfo Corrado
Performing
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Benoit/Alcindoro
Donald Maxwell
Performing
Sep 25, 27
Oct 1, 3, 7, 10, 16, 22, 24, 28, 31
Nov 24, 28
Dec 3, 5, 10
Apr 17, 22, 25, 29
Benoit/Alcindoro
Richard Bernstein
Performing
Oct 9, 15
Benoit/Alcindoro
Malcolm MacKenzie
Performing
Apr 16, 24
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Performed
Oct 9
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Kazem Abdullah
Performed
Oct 10
World premiere: Teatro Regio, Turin, 1896. 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.
Creators
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was immensely popular in his own lifetime, and his mature works remain staples in the repertory of most of the world’s opera companies. His librettists for La Bohème, Giuseppe Giacosa (1847–1906) and Luigi Illica (1857–1919), also collaborated with him on his next two operas, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Giacosa, a dramatist, was responsible for the stories and Illica, a poet, worked primarily on the words themselves.
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composer
Giacomo Puccini
Production
Franco Zeffirelli
SET DESIGNER
Franco Zeffirelli
COSTUME DESIGNER
Peter J. Hall
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Gil Wechsler
C. Graham Berwind, III Chorus Director
Tilman Michael
Setting
The libretto sets the action in Paris, circa 1830. This is not a random setting, but rather reflects the issues and concerns of a particular time when, following the upheavals of revolution and war, French artists had lost their traditional support base of aristocracy and Church. The story centers on self-conscious youth at odds with mainstream society—a bohemian ambience that is clearly recognizable in any modern urban center. La Bohème captures this ethos in its earliest days.
Videos
Music
Lyrical and touchingly beautiful, the score of La Bohème exerts an immediate emotional pull. Many of its most memorable melodies are built incrementally, with small intervals between the notes that carry the listener with them on their lyrical path. This is a distinct contrast to the grand leaps and dives that earlier operas often depended on for emotional effect. La Bohème’s melodic structure perfectly captures the “small people” (as Puccini called them) of the drama and the details of everyday life.
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