La Bohème

130 years after its premiere in Turin, La bohème still lives an immortal existence among opera's most played and loved works. Perhaps because of the fascination with the -- on the surface -- carefree artist milieu in Paris? Perhaps because of the beautiful music and the recurring melodies that follow the individual characters and make the opera extraordinarily easy to follow? Certainly because of the timeless description of true love in a world where it is otherwise often cheaply for sale.

In La bohème we meet four friends who, with the poet Rodolfo in the lead, try to keep warm in a cold attic room on Christmas Eve itself. They don't have the money to buy firewood for, and the rent they owe too, but what does that do when you're young and carefree? The friends decide to go out in Christmas-infested Paris, but Rodolfo stays behind to write. There's a knock on the door, and then one of opera history's most poignant love affairs takes its beginning. Outside the door, the seamstress Mimi stands asking for fire for her candle, and when Rodolfo grabs her cold hand, a love as hot as only the youth can feel it is awakened.

Opera director Elisabeth Linton herself directs the revival of La bohème, which was a huge success at its premiere in 2016. The singers, who embrace Puccini's legendary opera and hits such as So Cold the Little Hand is and Musetta's waltz aria, are led by two up-and-coming international soloists; Georgian-Ukrainian soprano Teona Todua and Bosnian-Swiss tenor Omer Kobiljak as Mimi and Rodolfo. They share the parties with the Royal Opera's soprano Sofie Elkjær Jensen and the young tenor Long Long, who will make his debut at The Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2026 precisely in the role of Rodolfo. Musetta and Marcello can be experienced with the Royal Opera's Clara Cecilie Thomsen and Jens Søndergaard.

La bohème is sung in Italian with Danish and English subtitles.

In collaboration with GöteborgsOperan

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