La bohème

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Giacomo Puccini: La bohème

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La bohème

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The fun-loving bohemians welcome us once more into the cold garret rooms of Paris, as one of opera history's greatest hits is restaged by Elisabeth Linton. 130 years after its premiere in Turin, La bohème still enjoys an immortal life among the most performed and best-loved works in opera. Perhaps because of the fascination with the - on the surface - carefree artistic circles of Paris? Perhaps because of the beautiful music and the recurring melodies that follow the individual characters and make the opera extraordinarily easy to follow? Certainly because of the timeless portrayal of true love in a world where love is otherwise so often cheaply on sale. In La bohème we meet four friends who, led by the poet Rodolfo, try to keep warm in a cold garret on Christmas Eve itself. They have no money to buy firewood, and they owe the rent too, but what does that matter when you are young and carefree? The friends decide to go out into Christmas-busy Paris, but Rodolfo stays behind to write. There is a knock at the door, and one of opera history's most moving love affairs begins. Outside stands the seamstress Mimi, asking for a light for her candle, and when Rodolfo takes her cold hand, a love is awakened as ardent as only youth can feel it. Opera director Elisabeth Linton is staging this revival of La bohème herself, which was a great success at its premiere in 2016. The singers, who take on Puccini's legendary opera and hits such as "Che gelida manina" (Your tiny hand is frozen) and Musetta's waltz aria, are led by two rising international soloists: the Georgian-Ukrainian soprano Teona Todua and the Bosnian-Swiss tenor Omer Kobiljak as Mimi and Rodolfo. They share the roles with the Royal Danish Opera's soprano Sofie Elkjær Jensen and the young tenor Long Long, who made his debut at The Metropolitan Opera in New York in spring 2026 in the role of Rodolfo. Musetta and Marcello can be seen with the Royal Danish Opera's Clara Cecilie Thomsen and Jens Søndergaard. La bohème is sung in Italian with Danish and English surtitles. In collaboration with GöteborgsOperan Recommended from age 8