1:39. The premise seems simple: take a beloved, classic opera and perform it backward. But the execution, it turns out, offers an entirely new experience. Detroit Opera on April 2, 6 and 10 will La bohème. La bohème (pronounced, "La bo-EM") is an Italian opera in four acts. The music was written by Giacomo Puccini. The libretto was written by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa . The opera tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris. O mio babbino caro. " O mio babbino caro " ("Oh my dear Papa”) is a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi and the family of Rinuccio, the boy she loves, have reached a breaking point that threatens to Peter Kazaras returns to direct the WNO’s repertory revival of La bohème by Joe Davies—first premiered in 2014—that places the action in post-World War I Paris. A broadcast of this production will be screened this fall as part of the annual Opera in the Outfield event at Nationals Park. The WNO Gala will also be held opening night (May New ‘La Boheme’ tells story in reverse for happy ending. This image released by the Detroit Opera shows Soprano Marlen Nahhas as Mimi, left, and tenor Matthew White as Rodolfo in a scene from Detroit Opera’s production of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” in which the four acts are played in reverse order. (Noah Elliott Morrison/Detroit Opera A tragic episode from the Puccini marriage took place in 1908–1909, when Puccini was beginning work on his America-set opera La Fanciulla del West. The story—some confirmed, some alleged—goes that a servant at the house, Doria Manfredi, caught Puccini’s married stepdaughter, Fosca, in bed with Fanciulla librettist Guelfo Civinini. To When many people think of opera, their minds go immediately to “La Bohème.” Puccini’s 1896 classic about tragic young love in Paris holds the record of most performed work in the Metropolitan Opera’s history, and a production is almost always playing at some opera house in the world at any given moment. Opera Philadelphia has […] Rent for $3.99. Learn more about on demand. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. The characters at the heart of the ever-popular La Bohème may merely be penniless bohemians, but in his masterful hands, Giacomo Puccini shows that their joys and sorrows are just as worthy of the operatic treatment as any god, king, or mythic hero. The month’s schedule is filled entirely by Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Puccini’s “Tosca” and “La Bohème,” four works that have been at the In La Bohème, the poet Rodolfo and silk flower-maker Mimì are true to form, but the baritone — the painter Marcello — is one of opera’s most appealing characters; everyone should have a friend in need like Marcello. Nor — as is opera’s wont — is the other soprano, the flirty, headstrong Musetta, the “other woman”. CT0K7.