Composer Giacomo Puccini · Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
In Italian with English and German surtitles

Conductor: Francesco Lanzillotta
Production: Otto Schenk
Set Design: Rudolf Heinrich
Choruses: Stellario Fagone

Mimì: Angel Blue
Musetta: Emily Pogorelc
Rodolfo: Evan LeRoy Johnson
Marcello: Artur Rucinski
Schaunard: Andrei Kymach
Colline: Nicholas Brownlee
Parpignol: Joel Williams
Benoît: Christian Rieger
Alcindoro: Martin Snell
Ein Zöllner: Theodore Platt
Sergeant der Zollwache: Andrew Gilstrap

Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Chorus and children’s chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

Heartache, heartbreak, the whole nine yards – four starving artists – love in a shabby attic loft – the swank boulevards where people live life with a capital “L”, but Mimi is destined to die. Her tiny hand: ice cold! Otto Schenk’s incredibly opulent, eternally valid production continues to fascinate audiences. All of Paris is magically transported onto the stage here. So beautiful you could cry!