The Royal Opera: La Boheme

Time: 19:45 (TBC)Date:  January 29th
Tickets: 10.50
Booking: Online and in-house. Booking fee applies to online ticket sales. 
Richard Jones perfectly captures the blend of tragedy and comedy in La bohme, and provides an acute analysis of Puccinis young would-be artists and their lovers, the soulful Mim and spirited Musetta. Spectacular designs by Stewart Laing evoke both the poverty of the bohemians attic home and the splendour of Pariss shopping arcades on Christmas Eve.

Puccinis score is one of his most beautiful, with highlights including Rodolfo and Mims introductory arias and love duet in Act I, ebullient music for the chorus and soloists in Act II, and Mims poignant death scene, over which the composer himself wept. La bohme received its world premiere at the Teatro Regio, Turin, on 1 February 1896, and its Covent Garden premiere the following year. It is currently one of the best-loved operas worldwide, and the opera most performed at the Royal Opera House.