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Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Fri, October 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Sun, October 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Sat, October 24, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Sun, October 25, 2009 at 2:00 PM
All performances at the Lucie Stern Theatre
1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, California
Preview with piano on Thursday, October 8, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
at the Palo Alto Art Center - 1313 Newell Rd. at Embarcadero, Palo Alto
conductor Bryan Nies director Jimmy Smith
West Bay Opera Premiere: November 16, 1956
World Premiere: Teatro Regio, Turin, February 1, 1896
Sung in Italian, with English titles
Synopsis:
The quintessential story of young love with a tragic ending, La bohème is Puccini's masterful vignette of bohemian life in the fabled Paris of the Romantic era. Puccini's score is a veritable musical caleidoscope of human emotion, from the tender first encounter between Rodolfo and Mimi, through the irreverent Christmas romp at the Café Momus, to the devastating scene of Mimi's death in the abject poverty of Rodolfo's apartment. A towering achievement by the master of the verismo style, La bohème is presented in an all-new West Bay Opera production. |
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