Showing Dates & Content for Hear the story behind the opera. Join us 45 minutes before this performance when a member of Opera Australia's artistic team will share their insights into the opera. Held in the Northern Foyer of the Joan Sutherland Theatre, this informal and informative talk will help you to get the most out of your opera experience. With the flickering of a candle, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends' lives are changed forever. The way that first love grabs hold of your insides and floods you with something you've never felt before. The fire that burns you the first time jealousy flares. The growing up you do in the instant you realise love can't last forever. takes these achingly human feelings and sets them to music — music that soars with the ecstacy of love, crackles with the pain of jealousy and cries with the agony of loss. Some human emotions are too big for words alone, and for that, we have music.

Bohème exposes your soul to the feelings that only music can express, and it opens our season most years because that's an experience everyone should have Gale Edwards' glittering production, set in the bohemian streets of 1930s Berlin, offers a perfect showcase for Mariangela Sicilia and Greta Bradman, sharing the Head up the stairs at the Joan Sutherland Theatre to enjoy the pop-up bar with an unbeatable view of the harbour, exclusive to ticket holders. The bar opens 90 minutes Cheat sheet: La Bohème VideoWatch the La Bohème trailer Photo GalleryLa Bohème at Sydney Opera House in 2017 VideoLa Bohème: A listening guide AudioListen to 'Mi chiamano Mimì' from La Bohème Sicilia (until 23 Jan, except 5 & 7 Jan) 7 Jan & from 24 Feb) 23 Jan, except 5 & 7 Jan) Tonkin (until 23 Jan) Opera Australia Children's Chorus Please note: this production contains partial nudity. Running time: approximately 2 hours & 15 minutes, including one 20-minute interval.

Performed in Italian with English surtitles. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher walk into a bar (no really!) to celebrate a sudden windfall in a lean winter. It’s Christmas Eve, and the poet has just felt the first pangs of great love. When a seamstress knocks on his door searching for candlelight, the pair fall in love faster than she can sing, "Yes, they call me Mimì…" Between the ideals of love and art and the cruel realities of cold winters, bitter jealousies and empty pockets, two sets of lovers are trying to find their way. By the time the curtain falls, you’ll know the answer to an eternal question: Not afraid of spoilers? Read the full synopsis. It is Christmas Eve. Rodolfo, a poet, and Marcello, a painter, are freezing inMarcello is painting The Crossing of the Red Sea. arrives as the fire Rodolfo has lit with one of his manuscripts, flickers and dies. Schaunard brings reinforcements — food, wine and fuel for the fire, bought with

unexpected money from his earnings as a musician. A knock at the door and Benoit, the landlord, arrives demanding the rent. john lewis mocha blackout curtains Bohemians ply him with wine and then bundle him off. amorini curtains ukMarcello, Colline and Schaunardardelle curtains go off to join the celebrations at Café Momus. Promising to join them soon, Rodolfo settles down to finish an article he is writing. There is another knock. This time it is a neighbour, Mimì — a beautiful young seamstress, holding her key and an unlit candle. She begs a light and RodolfoMimì departs and drops her key. Together they search for the key, andThey tell each other about themselves and Rodolfo passionately

The new lovers then set off into the night to join the others. The square in which Café Momus is situated is the Bohemians' favourite haunt, bustling with shoppers and hawkers. Rodolfo buys his new love a bonnet. At the café, Marcello's old flame, Musetta, appears with a new admirer, Alcindoro. To attract Marcello's attention, Musetta bursts into her famous waltz song. responds and Musetta, pretending that her shoe is pinching, dispatches Alcindoro toShe joins in the revelry with Marcello and his friends. they leave a reminder for the hapless Alcindoro on his return — a huge bill! It is daybreak just inside a tollgate. Snow lies on the ground. from the throng of workers. She is looking for Marcello at a nearby inn where he and Musetta have been living for the past month. Pale and agitated, she tells him of Rodolfo's jealousy which has made their life together impossible. Mimì hides as Rodolfo suddenly appears. He declares her to be unfaithful, but

then confides to Marcello that Mimì is very ill and blames himself and his poverty for not being able to help her. Mimì's sudden coughing betrays her presence and the lovers sadly decide it is best that they part. Their parting duet is interrupted by the sounds of a fierce quarrel between MarcelloMimì and Rodolfo decide to stay together until spring returns. The studio, months later. Both pairs of lovers have now parted. Mimì and Musetta have found wealthyRodolfo and Marcello feign indifference, but neither can forget the memory of his love. Schaunard and Colline arrive with meagre food and the four sit down to a mock 'banquet'. While they are acting the fool, Musetta rushes in with news that Mimì is desperately ill and has asked to be brought back to Rodolfo to die. Musetta explains that the Viscount has discarded Mimì and she has been living on the streets for weeks sinking further into poverty and desperation. The Bohemians rally to the cause.