La Bohème - Paris National Opera house (2020) - La Bohème - Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2020)

Description

Revival of the production played in 2017 (read our French column).

When, in Scenes from bohemian life, the characters imagined by Henry Mürger remember their youth as starving artists - the Momus coffee, the feasts and the poor Mimi that death died in the prime of life - it is with all the nostalgia that offers them the decline of the years. And if we observed with a comparable distance Bohemia? Such is Claus Guth's daring bias: by placing light years away from the broken loves of Mimi and Rodolfo, he creates a universe in which the past resurfaces in the form of hallucinatory flashes. In this surprising setting, Puccini's music echoes sublimely and the director rediscovers the very essence of the work: the memory as a tenuous link that hangs us up to life.

The evening of June 16 is reserved for under 40s.

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.

Following the measures adopted by the government as part of the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the opera house had to cancel all performances of this production.