La Bohème
By Giacomo Puccini
Thursday, January 22, 2026
6:00pm
Estimated Run Time - 3 Hours and 05 Min.
Sung - Italian
Met Titles - English
5:00pm - Courtyard opens - with small meals from Amalia Café.
6:00pm - Screening starts
“Throughout the run, rising stars make debuts in various roles, and none were more anticipated than those of Juliana Grigoryan and Freddie De Tommaso as Mimì and Rodolfo."
Keri-Lynn Wilson was conducting La Bohème for the first time at the Met, but she exhibited a total command of the score. Standing tall on the podium, Wilson has a bold, athletic conducting style to which the orchestra responded instinctively. Puccini’s melodies soared, and prayers were sung above a perfectly balanced and paced performance laden with emotion. Once again, La Bohème cast its spell at the Met. - New York Classical Review -
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.
Ticket Pricing
Venue
Prior-Jollek Hall - Antilles School Campus - St. Thomas - U.S. Virgin Islands
Thursday:
5:00pm - Courtyard open & small meals from Amalia Café
6:00pm - Screening Starts
Tickets
Adults - $20 Teachers - $10 Students & Children - Free of charge
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La Bohème
World Premiere
World premiere: Teatro Regio, Turin, 1896. La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things—a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor—that make up our everyday lives.
Creators
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was immensely popular in his own lifetime, and his mature works remain staples in the repertory of most of the world’s opera companies. His librettists for La Bohème, Giuseppe Giacosa (1847–1906) and Luigi Illica (1857–1919), also collaborated with him on his next two operas, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Giacosa, a dramatist, was responsible for the stories, and Illica, a poet, worked primarily on the words themselves.
Setting
The libretto sets the action in Paris, circa 1830. This is not a random setting, but rather reflects the issues and concerns of a particular time when, following the upheavals of revolution and war, French artists had lost their traditional support base of aristocracy and church. The story centers on self-conscious youth at odds with mainstream society—a bohemian ambience that is clearly recognizable in any modern urban center. La Bohème captures this ethos in its earliest days.
Music
Lyrical and touchingly beautiful, the score of La Bohème exerts an immediate emotional pull. Many of its most memorable melodies are built incrementally, with small intervals between the notes that carry the listener with them on their lyrical path. This is a distinct contrast to the grand leaps and dives that earlier operas often depended on for emotional effect. La Bohème’s melodic structure perfectly captures the “small people” (as Puccini called them) of the drama and the details of everyday life.
