On a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends’ lives change forever.

Experience the original bohemian love story.

When Mimì meets Rodolfo, it’s love at first touch. They head out to bustling Café Momus, where the feisty Musetta and Marcello rekindle their relationship. But even the deepest love can’t warm a freezing winter.

For our bohemians, everything is possible and the future can’t come quickly enough. Rodolfo and his friends are determined to make their mark on the world and experience everything it has to offer – but right now they’d settle for something warm to eat.

Some emotions are too big for words alone, and for that, we have music. La Bohème exposes your soul to the feelings that only music can express. The music soars with the ecstasy of love, crackles with the pain of jealousy and cries with the agony of loss.

Puccini’s score has always captured the soaring spirit of young love, and this new production breathes fresh life into one of the world’s favourite operas. Award-winning director Dean Bryant (Anything Goes, Sweet Charity) brings his trademark wit and vivacity to this new staging, which captures that giddy moment where you and your friends feel you’ll live forever.

Performed with a live chamber orchestra and a cast of outstanding singers, this is a night of opera and romance to make your heart sing. 

Cast & Credits

CREATIVES
CONDUCTOR Simon Bruckard
DIRECTOR Dean Bryant
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Isabel Hudson
LIGHTING DESIGNER Damien Cooper
CHILDRENS CHORUS MASTER Su Choung

CAST
MIMI Danita Weatherstone Maia Andrews
RODOLFO John Longmuir Nick Kirkup
MUSETTA Cathy-Di Zhang Jane Magão
MARCELLO Andrew Williams Benjamin Del Borrello
SCHAUNARD Michael Lampard Daniel Ott
COLLINE Shane Lowrencev Eddie Muliaumaseali’i
BENOIT/ALCINDORO Eugene Raggio

ORCHESTRA
LEADER & FIRST VIOLIN Ben Spiers
SECOND VIOLIN Natasha Conrau
VIOLA Ariel Postmus
CELLO Stephanie Arnold
DOUBLE BASS Lillian Bennett
FLUTE Jonathan Henderson
OBOE Noah Rudd
CLARINET Oliver Crofts
BASSOON Chris Martin
HORN Rebecca Luton
TRUMPET Adam Davis
TROMBONE Cian Malikides
KEYBOARD Su Choung

Accessibility

Sung in Italian with English Surtitles (OC)

Wheelchair accessible

Companion Card accepted

Assistive Hearing system available (FM)

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This production is supported by The Opera Conference, Australia’s national partnership of professional opera companies, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts and funding advisory body, by the NSW Government through Create NSW, and by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.