La Bohème - Opéra national de Paris (Nov/Dec 2014) - La Bohème - Opéra national de Paris (Nov/Dec 2014)

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There is perhaps nothing more straightforward than La Bohème: a young man and a young woman meet, fall in love, are separated by life and then reunited again before the ultimate separation. It takes place in Paris, an eternally Bohemian Paris, as legendary as it is real. Out of this simplicity springs something miraculous: an irrepressible and ever-new emotion.  Puccini filled La Bohème with unforgettable images: Mimi, muse-like, entering the poet’s room, a candle in her hand… the lover’s moonlight duet, the brightly-lit grand café, the impossible farewells in the freezing morning, and finally, death on a shabby bed. But these places are just as equally realms within ourselves: his café Momus is the very whirlwind of existence, his Barrière d’Enfer is the frightening barrenness of the heart: La Bohème evokes the things which haunt us all: the love which blazes and transports us to heaven, the fleeting nature of youth, and all-destroying time. In 1896, Puccini still had numerous masterpieces ahead of him. But he would probably never again achieve the clarity and splendour of melody whose every phrase touches us and is engraved in our hearts from the moment we first hear it.


La Bohème par operadeparis

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Schedule

November 30, 2014 14:30:00

December 02, 2014 19:30:00

December 04, 2014 19:30:00

December 06, 2014 19:30:00

December 09, 2014 19:30:00

December 11, 2014 19:30:00

December 13, 2014 19:30:00

December 15, 2014 19:30:00

December 18, 2014 19:30:00

December 21, 2014 14:30:00

December 23, 2014 19:30:00

December 26, 2014 19:30:00

December 28, 2014 14:30:00

December 30, 2014 19:30:00

Casting

Jonathan Miller

Mark Elder

Khachatur Badalyan

Dimitri Pittas

Ana María Martínez

Nicole Cabell

Tassis Christoyannis

Simone Del Savio

Ante Jerkunica

Bruno Lazzaretti

Francis Dudziak

Mariangela Sicilia

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Rodolfo

Rodolfo

Mimi

Mimi

Marcello

Schaunard

Colline

Benoit

Alcindoro

Musetta

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