12/5/15 LA BOHEME @ 1:00PM – MET BEGINS
Metropolitan Opera
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Approximate running time 3 hrs 0 mins
Puccini’s unforgettable tale of love, youth, and tragic loss returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, perhaps his most beloved staging of all. Maria Agresta, Ramón Vargas, and Bryan Hymel are among the artists appearing as the young Parisian lovers in the bohemian setting that brings the Latin Quarter to life on the stage of the Met. Paolo Carignani and Dan Ettinger conduct.
Sung in Italian
Cast
Conductor
Paolo Carignani
Mimì
Barbara Frittoli
Musetta
Ana María Martínez
Rodolfo
Ramón Vargas
Marcello
Levente Molnar
Schaunard
Alexey Lavrov
Colline
Christian Van Horn
Benoit/Alcindoro
John Del Carlo
front page photo credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera