La Boheme - Our House to your House Series

Online premiere: Friday 3 July 2020 at 7pm BST, broadcast free online as part of the Royal Opera House’s #OurHouseToYourHouse series.

Puccini’s opera of passion, friendship and heartbreak is one of the best-loved operas worldwide. Its music includes such treats as Rodolfo and Mimì’s Act I arias and duet and the ebullient choruses of Act II and Mimì’s heartrending death scene. Richard Jones’s recent production for The Royal Opera perfectly captures the vulnerability of youth amid the harshness and glamour of a big city. The atmospheric designs, by Stewart Laing, evoke both the poverty of the bohemians’ attic home and the splendour of Paris’s shopping arcades on Christmas Eve.

The opera blends tragedy and comedy, the soulful and the spirited, into a powerful encapsulation of the intenseness of life’s experience. To its young would-be artists and their lovers, this recording is performed by a winning young cast under the baton of Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera.

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