We open the 2008-2009 season with Puccini’s La Bohème–a timeless work of art, guaranteed to captivate and move you, whether it is the first or the 101st time you see it! Puccini’s most popular opera is the original masterpiece that inspired the hit Broadway musical Rent. Relive this enduring story of the six young bohemians as they dream, laugh, fall in love and mourn in the garrets and cafes of beckoning—and punishing—19th century Paris.

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About the Music...

“Puccini’s music is quite different from that of anybody else. He is the most effective of all opera composers. If you were to ask nine opera goers out of ten in any country in the world whose operas they like best, as I have done, the answer would be Puccini…I think it is because he speaks to us personally in a way we understand.”

Conductor Sir Thomas Beechan

Excerpts of the music: Aria: “Quando m’en vo”

Aria: “Donde lieta”

Duet: “O Mimì, tu pìu non torni”

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