La Bohème – The Metropolitan Opera
Mirabelle Ordinaire’s revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s rich and sumptuous 1981 production is epic on every level, as it visualises the musical textures of Puccini’s timeless masterpiece that tells of love, friendship, and death in 1830’s Paris.
It is Christmas Eve when we meet four struggling bohemians living in a garret: a poet, Rodolfo (Freddie De Tommaso); a painter, Marcello (Lucas Meachem); a philosopher, Colline (Jongmin Park); and a musician, Schaunard (Sean Michael Plumb) who arrives having had some good fortune and they agree to celebrate by dining at Café Momus. They are interrupted by their landlord, Benoît (Donald Maxwell) but cleverly trick him into revealing he has been playing around which allows them to throw him out in comic moral indignation without paying their rent...
