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LOCATION:Staatsoper Unter den Linden\, Berlin
SUMMARY:La Bohème
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Depending on the demand for their work\, the penniless poet Rod
 olfo and his three witty artist friends live either in destitution or in t
 he lap of luxury\, squandering their money. When their neighbour Mimì app
 ears in their garret one day\, Rodolfo falls in love with the fragile youn
 g woman at first sight. But in the face of Mimì’s illness\, the struggl
 ing artists are caught up in harsh reality.\n\nIn a loose sequence of scen
 es\, Puccini and his librettists not only tell a love story with a tragic 
 ending\, but also portray the subculture of bohemians in 19th-century Pari
 s: their desire for freedom\, both socially and artistically\, their self-
 image as bogeymen of the bourgeoisie\, and their everyday life that vacill
 ates between excess and survival – a lifestyle that Puccini himself cult
 ivated during his studies. In this opera\, he created a new form of verist
 ic melodrama with detailed musical descriptions of moods. His haunting and
  expressive score depicts the world of the bohemians and their surrounding
 s as realistically and meticulously as it does the inner lives of the char
 acters they were based on. In poetic images\, Lindy Hume presents the work
  as a nostalgic retrospective of a carefree\, all-too transient youth.
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