Mimì is ill and the life-affirming group must face the reality of life: beautiful and fleeting. Mimì is as beautiful as the spring sun, but her cold hands are a sign that something is wrong. When someone knocks on the door, it is love at first sight for the poet Rodolfo. In the freezing cold, they warm themselves with dreams and wine. In a loft in Paris, we are introduced to a group of young artists. Only a few seats remain for this scenic concert, so if you want to experience live opera again before the summer, act fast! A story about life With simple, minimalist scenery, the opera is performed by a group of brilliant Norwegian soloists together with the Norwegian National Opera Chorus, Norwegian National Opera Children’s Chorus and Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. In La bohème, we encounter youthful dreams, burning love, painful grief, everyday life, celebration, tragedy and comedy – all set to Puccini’s intensely beautiful music. The friends do what they can but it is too late to save her.“ La bohème may very well be the ultimate opera,” says soprano Ann-Helen Moen, who is ready to bring life to the role of Mimì on the Main Stage. They are interrupted when Musetta bursts in to say that Mimì is dying. Schaunard and Colline bring some meagre food and the four friends pretend that they are enjoying a fine dinner party with dancing. Marcello and Rodolfo are alone again, trying to work, though their thoughts stray to their absent lovers. Marcello and Musetta quarrel while Rodolfo and Mimì confront the necessity of separation. She overhears the men talking about her: Rodolfo believes she is so ill that her only chance of recovery is to leave him and his life of poverty. Mimì asks Marcello to speak to Rodolfo for her because his jealousy has made their life together impossible. On a cold February dawn, people enter the district looking for work. As a military tattoo passes by, Musetta instructs the Bohemians to add their bill to hers: Alcindoro can settle them both.
Finally, she despatches Alcindoro to buy her a pair of shoes and throws herself into Marcello’s arms. Marcello loses his temper when his old flame, Musetta, walks by with Alcindoro, her companion his upper-class impatience drives her to make an outrageous scene.
Outside Café Momus, last-minute Christmas shopping is in progress. From the street below, Rodolfo’s friends call out for him to hurry up he promises to join them with Mimì. Rodolfo revives her and helps her to look for the key she has dropped in the darkness, their hands touch. It is Mimì, a neighbour, who is so weak that she faints. They manage to avoid paying and set off, leaving Rodolfo behind to finish an article. Just as they are about to leave, the landlord arrives with a demand for rent. He proposes that they celebrate at the Café Momus. Their friends arrive: Colline, despondent that he has failed to sell any books, and Schaunard, triumphant with money and food and wine. Marcello, a painter, is trying to create a monotype in the extreme cold of a studio he shares with Rodolfo, a writer Rodolfo volunteers to warm them both up by burning the manuscript of his play. The action is set in Paris during the early 1930s.
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