TEACH US TO LOVE

Still capturing hearts and imaginations around the world after nearly 100 years, Puccini's La Boheme is a true tribute to the human spirit, a timeless arbiter of living, laughing and loving in the face of adversity, poverty and devastation. Set during the first Christmas after WWI, Opera San Jose's production of this popular favorite will lift your spirits as it transports you to the streets of Paris and into the lives of four young bohemians, bubbling with joie de vivre.

WHO ARE THE BOHEMIANS?

Since the nineteenth Century, people have been referring to bohemians, who were usually artists, musicians and writers who lived life for the experience (and the absinthe.) The characters of La Boheme are just like that, down on luck and rent, but high on love and life. There's scholarly poetry Roldofo and delicate Mimi, an everlasting couple for whom struggle often gets in the middle, and Muschetta and Marcello, the outrageous, flirtatious ones who always seem to find their way back to each other.