BIENVENUE A PARIS

Returning to Los Angeles Opera this holiday season, La Boheme follows the lives of four young bohemians as they fight, fantasize and fall in (and out) of love in the face of poverty. Widely regarded as one of Puccini's greatest works, spawning myriad adaptations, even becoming the basis for hit musical RENT. Although the struggle and strife (and excitement) of 1840s Paris may seem worlds away to us now, the themes have remained timeless and universal.

Resident Conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granado will take to the podium for this production by Herbert Ross, starring soprano Janai Brugger as Mimi and tenor Oreste Cosimo as Rodolfo.

Who are the Bohemians?

Since the Nineteenth Century, people have been referring to bohemians, who were usually artists, musicians, and writers who lived life for the experience (and the absinthe.) The characters of La Boheme are just like that, down on luck and rent, but high on love and life. There are Roldofo and Mimi, an everlasting couple for whom struggle often gets in the middle, and Muschetta and Marcello, the outrageous, flirtatious ones who always seem to find their way back to each other. You can't fail to enjoy the riotous and charismatic tales of these wild young things!