Puccini’s moving story of young love is the most-staged opera in the history of the Metropolitan Opera and with a good reason. In Franco Zeffirelli’s classical staging, Anita Hartig takes the stage as the fragile Mimi, while Vittorio Grigolo plays the role of her passionate lover, Rodolfo.
The opera become immediately hugely successful, partly due to the sentimental plot and brilliant love music. The story takes place in the Latin Quarter of Paris around 1830 and begins on Christmas Eve. Poor young bohemians – the dreamer and amateur poet Rodolfo, the practical and emotional promising painter Marcello, the war veteran and philosopher Colline and the liberal spoilt musician Schaunard – are living in deprivation and cold in the garret of the house of their landlord Benoit.
Distributor:
The Metropolitan Opera
Director:
Franco Zeffirelli
