La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini’s most famous opera, La Bohème, tells the poignant story of four struggling young artists living in Paris in the late 1880s.

Rodolfo, a poet, falls deeply in love with Mimì, a gentle seamstress, while his friend Marcello, a painter, navigates a stormy on-again, off-again relationship with the vivacious Musetta. Rodolfo and Mimì share a brief period of happiness, but their love is overshadowed by hardship. Fearing that their poverty will worsen Mimì’s tuberculosis, Rodolfo convinces himself that they must part. Months later, when Mimì becomes gravely ill, she returns to the garret where Rodolfo and his friends live. The two lovers reminisce tenderly about their first meeting and their love, but their reunion comes too late. Mimì dies peacefully, leaving Rodolfo heartbroken and inconsolable. Starring Mary McCabe as Mimì and Robyn Lyn Evans as Rodolfo with Tereza Gevorgyan and Jean-Kristof Bouton as Musetta and Marcello.

Bringing together Diva Opera’s internationally celebrated chamber opera company and incorporating members of the NI Opera Chorus, this production places audiences at the heart of the story. Staged with the greatest of detail, this intimate and up-close experience performed with a Steinway grand piano, allows La Bohème to unfold within the soaring Gothic interior of the Carlisle Memorial Church, taking the audience into the Parisian garrets of the Bohemians.

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