Friday, July 17 at 8 PM & Sunday, July 19 at 8 PM
Puccini: LA BOHÈME

Maestro Allan Pollack, conductor

Vincent Chambers, Rodolfo
Cynthia Clayton, Mimi
Hector Vasquez, Marcello
Shawnette Sulker, Musetta
Matthew Miksak, Colline
Vincent Russo, Alcindoro & Benoit

Young artists struggle with life, love, and heartbreak in this famous love story – staged for modern audiences, the opera is known for its sweeping lyricism and stunning orchestration.

In the Latin Quarter of 1830 Paris, four poor friends laugh, love, and play together in their freezing garret. It is Christmas Eve and they decide to go to the Café Momus to celebrate. Rodolfo stays back to finish a newspaper article. Mimi, a poor seamstress who lives in the highest garret, stops at Rodolfo’s flat to light her candle. They fall in love. "I am a poet and she is poetry," Rodolfo tells his friends. But Mimi is consumptive and their true love is not meant to be. Heart-lifting love and heart-breaking sadness make La boheme the most famous love story in opera since struggling with life, love, and heartbreak is common to all of us. The music's sweeping lyricism and stunning orchestration reminds us why we love. Staged for modern audiences.