La Bohème by Puccini, Sv 27 nov 2022, No (2022/2023), Režisēja Claudia Meyer, Diriģents Alexander Merzyn, Staatstheater Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany

Paris around 1830. With charm, humor and ingenuity, love of life and esthete, Rodolfo and his friends have a good time in a cramped attic apartment despite their unemployed existence. After all, they are artists and know what real aesthetes should do! On Christmas Eve, the seamstress Mimì appears in the bitterly cold apartment and asks for a light for her candle. Rodolfo is immediately enchanted. But Mimì's serious illness puts a strain on their love. Her material circumstances are her undoing: Rodolfo cannot help her without money. So the beautiful artist's dreams finally shatter in the face of harsh reality. Mimì dies in the writer's arms. With LA BOHÈME Puccini achieved a real worldwide success. The veristic milieu study of 19th-century Parisian bohème, into which the composer was able to incorporate experiences from his own student days in Milan, established his wealth and success, which he continued with operas such as "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly". Social criticism and great emotional drama merge seamlessly here.