The 1,348th Metropolitan Opera performance of la bohèmeGIACOMO PUCCINI’S Maestro Eun Sun Kim’s Metropolitan Opera debut performances are underwritten by the Oscar Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. endowment fund. Today’s performances of the roles of Mimì and Rodolfo are underwritten by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Great la bohème GIACOMO PUCCINI general manager Peter Gelb jeanette lerman-neubauer music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin Opera in four acts Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème by Henri Murger Tuesday, January 18, 2022 7:00–10:05 pm The production of La Bohème was made In 1910, he composed La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) for the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as Il Trittico, a trio of one act-act operas which also premiered at the Met, in 1918. La Bohème—the passionate, timeless, 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 (even to those new to opera) and to reveal previously unnoticed treasures after dozens of hearings. Zeffirelli directing Teresa Stratas and José Carreras in La Bohème. Zeffirelli’s extensive Met legacy—which also included stagings of Don Giovanni and Carmen in the 1990s—has been preserved in numerous video recordings, as all but his Antony and Cleopatra and two productions of La Traviata have been captured in full telecasts and HD Watch a trailer for Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of “La Bohème.” Three casts of captivating artists bring Puccini’s classic tragedy of bohemian XWR7RC. CARLOS KLEIBER, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut on Friday evening as conductor of the season's eighth ''La Boheme,'' arrived on a wave of excited expectation that had to make one wary Explore La Bohème, Giacomo Puccini, a January 16 1982 production by The Metropolitan Opera Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, conducted by James Levine. Get performance details, watch videos, view photos and more on Operabase. He’s also sung at the Metropolitan Opera and at distinguished houses nationwide. ONSTAGE. What: “La Bohème” by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on “Scènes de la vie de bohème” by Henri Murger, directed by Jonathon Loy, conducted by Brian Garman. Who: Berkshire Opera Festival The opera began life as a novel – Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. It was then made into a play by Murger and Théodore Barrière. It is the play that the libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa is based, though most of the second and third acts are original inventions of the librettists. Manon Lescaut ( Italian: [maˈnɔn leˈsko]) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva [ it], based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The opera was first performed in 1893 in Le Villi. Le Villi ( The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera – ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story "Les Willis" by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet

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