Could it be because the writer Henry Murger himself had experienced bohemian life during his youth that his Scenes from Bohemian Life so aptly describes these broke, starving artists ready to burn a manuscript? to keep warm, but who dreamed of a better life at a time when the materialist bourgeoisie triumphed? By appropriating these scenes, Giacomo Puccini gives us, through the moving story of the poet Rodolfo and the fragile Mimi, some of his most beautiful operatic pages. Director Claus Guth places their broken love in a universe where the past resurfaces in the form of hallucinatory flashes. In this surprising setting, Puccini’s music resonates sublimely and leaves room for the very essence of the work: memory as a tenuous link that connects us to life.
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