La Bohème

Set in the Paris of the 19th century, La bohème recounts the life of a group of penniless bohemians who struggle to make ends meet. Then love makes its appearance and becomes the centre of everything, with the couple formed by the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì. It is love at first sight, a tender idyll which they helplessly fail to manage when she falls victim to a terrible illness. In the end, everything straightens out and love has its way, but by then, at the gates of death, it’s too late for a happy ending.

In La bohème, Puccini captures the beauty and sadness of young love and through romantically emotive melodies and unequalled moments like the aria Che gelida manina, he explores such themes as poverty and death but also solidarity and comradeship.

 LA BOHÈME 

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) 16/10/2024 – 17/11/2024

Opera in four acts (Surtitled in Catalan).

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger.

This opera premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 1 February 1896. Its debut in Catalonia was at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 10 April 1898.

Approximate running time: 2 h 50 min

Act 1:40 min. Interval 15 min. Act 2: 20 min. Interval 15 min. Act 3: 30 min. Interval 15 min. Act 4: 35 min.

 PERFORMANCES 

Berna Perles / Suzana Nadejde (October 23, 27, 30; November 12)

Mimì

Kenneth Tarver / Antoni Lliteres (October 23, 25, 27; November 8)

Rodolfo

Laia Cladellas (October 16, 20, 25, 27; November 1, 8, 9, 17) / Sabrina Gárdez (October 18, 23, 26, 30; November 3, 6, 12, 15)

Musetta

Milan Perišić

Marcello

Quim Cornet

Schaunard

Arturo Espinosa

Colline

Juan Carlos Esteve

Benoit / Alcindoro

Carlos Lezcano

Parpignol

Lluís Vergés

Doganiere