Is it because Murger had himself lived this way in his youth? No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than the writer in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet, in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence.Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi.The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence. Maîtrise des Hauts de Seine / Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de ParisDirector: François Roussillon A coproduction Opéra national de Paris and François Roussillon et Associés, with the participation of France Télévisions, TF1, medici.tv and the support of the Fondation Orange and the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée.© Opéra national de Paris – François Roussillon et Associés - 2017

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La Bohème

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Is it because Murger had himself lived this way in his youth? No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than the writer in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet, in an era of tri

Giacomo Puccini

To celebrate the Music Day’s 35th anniversary, the Paris Opera gave on 21 June 2016 an exceptional concert at the Bastille Opera House. The program included excerpts of 19th century French and Italian classic repertoire, such as Verdi’s famous operas (Aida, Nabucco, La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore and La Traviata), Bizet’s Carmen, Pucini’s Tosca, Saint- Saëns’s Samson and Delilah, Bellini’s Norma.This program featured the Paris Opera Orchestra and Choruses, conducted by Philippe Jordan, and three exceptional soloists: Sondra Radvanovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksandr Antonenko. The Paris Opera Orchestra and ChorusesA co-production of the Paris Opera, Telmondis, ARTE France With the support of the Centre national du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée and the Orange Foundation, sponsor of the Paris Opera's audiovisual broadcastsDirector: François-René Martin © Opéra national de Paris – Telmondis – Arte France 2016Picture: Jean-François Leclercq / OnP

Concert symphonique

Exceptional lyric concert

To celebrate the Music Day’s 35th anniversary, the Paris Opera gave on 21 June 2016 an exceptional concert at the Bastille Opera House. The program included excerpts of 19th century French and Italian classic repertoire, such as Verdi’s famous operas