Organization

Chanteur

Basse

Donald Maxwell

Alcindoro

Benoît

Soprano

Eleonora Buratto

Mimi

Lumières

Gil Wechsler

Costumes

Sir Peter Hall

Décors

Franco Zeffirelli

Mise en scène

Direction d'orchestre

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

James Gaffigan

Suzanna Phillips

Leah Hawkins

Musetta

Latonia Moore

Ténor

Stephen Costello

Rodolfo

Charles Castronovo

Baryton

Davide Luciano

Marcello

Alexey Lavrov

Schaunard

Iurii Samoilov

Christian Van Horn

Colline

Krzysztof Bączyk

Philip Cokorinos

Quinn Kelsey

Paolo Carignani

Gregory Warren

Parpignol

Daniel Clark Smith

Tyler Simpson

Un sergent de douane

Jonathan Scott

Ross Benoliel

Le douanier

Ned Hanlon

Juhwan Lee

Un vendeur ambulant

Steven Myles

Sylvia D'Eramo

The Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

italien

La Bohème

New York

États-Unis

Metropolitan Opera House

La bohème Puccini

Public

anglais

allemand

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Valide

La Bohème: Trailer

Go behind the scenes of La Bohème and watch how swiftly our talented stagehands transform the stage in Franco Zeffirelli’s beloved production. Experience Puccini’s heartbreaking tragedy at the Met this fall, with Eun Sun Kim conducting a remarkable young cast.
On stage tonight, November 17: bit.ly/2Zx8O9b

Puccini’s La Bohème: Scene Change

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Puccini’s timeless tragedy for the first time at the Met, leading soprano Eleonora Buratto and tenor Stephen Costello as the bohemian lovers Mimì and Rodolfo, and soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan and baritone Davide Luciano as the on-again-off-again Musetta and Marcello. Later in the run, James Gaffigan takes the podium to conduct a second exceptional cast in Franco Zeffirelli’s beloved staging, with sopranos Susanna Phillips and Latonia Moore, tenor Charles Castronovo, and baritone Quinn Kelsey.

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.
 
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.

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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