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La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini

Opéra Bastille

from 01 to 31 December 2017

La Bohème

Opéra Bastille - from 01 to 31 December 2017

Synopsis

Is it because Murger had himself lived this way in his youth? No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than the writer in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.

Duration :

Language : Italian

Surtitle : French / English

Artists

Opera in four acts (1896)

After Henry Murger, Scènes de la vie de bohème

Creative team

Cast

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Choeur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris

Media

  • Podcast La Bohème

    Podcast La Bohème

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  • Octave’s holiday season playlist

    Octave’s holiday season playlist

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Podcast La Bohème

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"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

07 min

Podcast La Bohème

By Judith Chaine, France Musique

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Judith Chaine (opera) and Stéphane Grant (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.     

© Jean-Pierre Delagarde / OnP

Octave’s holiday season playlist

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Music

01 min

Octave’s holiday season playlist

By Octave

For your Xmas and New Year holidays, Octave has chosen excerpts from Puccini's La Bohème and from Don Quichotte by Minkus, along with a piece by composer Mikael Karlsson and songs from Gospel singer Gospel Callie Day, both on the bill of Play.

  • La Bohème - Trailer
  • Lumière sur : les coulisses de la Bohème
  • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (Sonya Yoncheva & Artur Ruciński)
  • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (Sonya Yoncheva & Atalla Ayan)
  • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (Sonya Yoncheva)
  • La Bohème - Giacomo Puccini

  • La Bohème – « Chi son ? Sono un poeta »

  • La Bohème - « Sono Andati » (Sonya Yoncheva)

  • La Bohème – « il primo sole è mio »

Access and services

Opéra Bastille

Place de la Bastille

75012 Paris

Public transport

Underground Bastille (lignes 1, 5 et 8), Gare de Lyon (RER)

Bus 29, 69, 76, 86, 87, 91, N01, N02, N11, N16

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Car park

Q-Park Opéra Bastille 34, rue de Lyon 75012 Paris

Book your parking spot

In both our venues, discounted tickets are sold at the box offices from 30 minutes before the show:

  • €35 tickets for under-28s, unemployed people (with documentary proof less than 3 months old) and senior citizens over 65 with non-taxable income (proof of tax exemption for the current year required)
  • €70 tickets for senior citizens over 65

Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.

Opéra Bastille
  • Open 1h before performances and until performances end
  • Get in from within the theatre’s public areas
  • For more information: +33 1 40 01 17 82

Opéra Bastille

Place de la Bastille

75012 Paris

Public transport

Underground Bastille (lignes 1, 5 et 8), Gare de Lyon (RER)

Bus 29, 69, 76, 86, 87, 91, N01, N02, N11, N16

Calculate my route
Car park

Q-Park Opéra Bastille 34, rue de Lyon 75012 Paris

Book your parking spot

In both our venues, discounted tickets are sold at the box offices from 30 minutes before the show:

  • €35 tickets for under-28s, unemployed people (with documentary proof less than 3 months old) and senior citizens over 65 with non-taxable income (proof of tax exemption for the current year required)
  • €70 tickets for senior citizens over 65

Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.

Opéra Bastille
  • Open 1h before performances and until performances end
  • Get in from within the theatre’s public areas
  • For more information: +33 1 40 01 17 82

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  • Sponsor of the Paris Opera's audiovisual broadcasts

  • With the support of AROP

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