From 14 to 25 January 2026, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma hosts La Bohème, one of Giacomo Puccini's most beloved works, in a production realised in collaboration with the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, featuring the evocative vision of director David Livermore.
The four-act masterpiece, with libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, is based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger and Théodore Barrière. It debuted in 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by a young Arturo Toscanini.
Set in nineteenth-century Paris, among students, seamstresses, bourgeoisie, shopkeepers, street vendors, soldiers and waiters, the opera tells the story of the lives and loves of a group of young people - the poet Rodolfo, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard, the philosopher Colline, the delicate flower embroiderer Mimì and the singer Musetta - portraying an extraordinary and colourful Ville Lumière of the time.
Already presented at the Baths of Caracalla in 2014 and 2015, and at the Circus Maximus in 2021, La Bohème by Livermore, who also designed the sets, costumes, and lighting, turns the stage into a sort of studio where the protagonists move among famous French Impressionist artworks.
On stage, a cast of international artists – Saimir Pirgu, Francesco Demuro and René Barbera (Rodolfo), Carolina López Moreno, Maria Agresta and Yaritza Véliz (Mimì), Alessio Arduini and Biagio Pizzuti (Schaunard), Davide Luciano and Vittorio Prato (Marcello), Marko Mimica and Manuel Fuentes (Colline), Desirée Rancatore and Elisa Balbo (Musetta), Matteo Peirone (Benoît/Alcindoro) – accompanied by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro dell'Opera, conducted respectively by Jader Bignamini (and by Alessandro Palumbo for one date) and Ciro Visco.
Photo: La Bohème, Circo Massimo, ph. Fabrizio Sansoni, Opera di Roma 2021
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