2023 / AROP evening / Opera

01 Jun.

La Bohème

Opéra Bastille

19h30

Duration

2h30

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h30

2nd part

21h00

End of the performance

22h00

Was it because the writer Henry Murger had himself known such a life during his youth? That would explain the veracity with which, in his Scènes de la vie de bohème, he depicts those half‑starved, struggling artists, ready to burn their manuscripts for a bit of warmth whilst, in an age of triumphant bourgeois materialism, they dream of another life. Taking up these scenes, Giacomo Puccini offers us the heart‑breaking story of the poet, Rodolfo, and the fragile Mimi, and some of the most beautiful pages in the repertoire. The director, Claus Guth, sets their broken love affair in space, creating a universe in which the past resurges in the form of hallucinatory flashbacks. In this surprising setting, Puccini’s music resounds sublimely, highlighting the very essence of the work: memory as the thread that attaches us to life.

La Bohème

Production de 2017 - Claus Guth