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Go to the MET Opera in New York, NY to see La Bohème in the orchestra! This opera is sung in Italian and will have subtitles in English, German, Spanish, and Italian.

The show will take place on November 28, 2020 at 8:00pm.

Run time:
2 hours and 59 minutes with two intermissions of 35 minutes and 30 minutes.

Summary
Franco Zeffirelli’s definitive staging of the world’s most popular opera returns for another season with several luxury casts gracing the garrets of bohemian Paris. Tenors Piero Pretti, Dmytro Popov, and Matthew Polenzani are the tortured poet Rodolfo, with sopranos Angel Blue (fresh from her triumphant performances of Bess in Porgy and Bess last season), Nicole Car, Eleonora Buratto, and in a rare return—Angela Gheorghiu as the heartbreaking seamstress Mimì. Domingo Hindoyan and Marco Armiliato conduct.

Creators
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was immensely popular in his own lifetime, and his mature works remain staples in the repertory of most of the world’s opera companies. His librettists for La Bohème, Giuseppe Giacosa (1847–1906) and Luigi Illica (1857–1919), also collaborated with him on his next two operas, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Giacosa, a dramatist, was responsible for the stories and Illica, a poet, worked primarily on the words themselves.

Music
Lyrical and touchingly beautiful, the Giacomo Puccini's score of La Bohème exerts an immediate emotional pull. Many of its most memorable melodies are built incrementally, with small intervals between the notes that carry the listener with them on their lyrical path. This is a distinct contrast to the grand leaps and dives that earlier operas often depended on for emotional effect. La Bohème’s melodic structure perfectly captures the “small people” (as Puccini called them) of the drama and the details of everyday life.

Setting
The libretto sets the action in Paris, circa 1830. This is not a random setting, but rather reflects the issues and concerns of a particular time when, following the upheavals of revolution and war, French artists had lost their traditional support base of aristocracy and church. The story centers on self-conscious youth at odds with mainstream society—a Bohemian ambience that is clearly recognizable in any modern urban center. La Bohème captures this ethos in its earliest days.

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