Metropolitan Opera broadcasts return to Classical 90.5 at 11:00 a.m. this Saturday, December 5, with a performance of La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The performance will be sung in Italian and will run approximately three hours.
La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things—a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor—that make up our everyday lives.
Puccini’s unforgettable tale of love, youth, and tragic loss returns to the Met in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, perhaps his most beloved staging of all. Paolo Carignani conducts.
THE CAST
Mimi: Barbara Frittoli
Rodolfo: Ramón Vargas
Musetta: Ana María Martínez
Marcello: Levente Molnár
Colline: Christian Van Horn
Schaunard: Alexey Lavrov
Benoit, Alcindoro: John Del Carlo
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