synopsis of la boheme opera
Federik Mirdita, Stage Director. Performed in Italian (with Russian supertitles) Premiere of this production: 20 Feb 1996. The performance has 1 intermission. Running time: 2 hours 50 minutes. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. based on Henry Murger’s novel Scenes de la Vie de Boheme.
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 theReview by Isabella Olsson Opera Australia opens their 2020 season with a production of the Italian opera classic La Bohème, composed by Giacomo Puccini and with a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. This classic love story follows the tribulations of two sets of couples over the course of a year as they are confronted by sickness, jealousy, and the struggles of poverty. Originally
Mi chiamano Mimi – the second great aria of Bohème. In this aria Puccini portrays Mimi at the beginning with very simple means. Thus, at her first appearance, her text remains surprisingly unpoetic at first (“my name is Mimi…once my name was Lucia; industrious I am, and cook my own food”) and is composed in simple harmonies.