Puccini’s early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian opera composer who has been called “the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi”. Musetta, Marcello, Schaunard and Colline join in a final hug as Rodolfo cries over Mimì’s lifeless body.Ĭomposer – Giacomo Puccini (life and work) She wants to die in his arms, surrounded by her true friends. Mimì, although she is now rich, when she feels death approaching, goes to her only love, Rodolfo. They are visited by Musetta, who is accompanied by Mimì. Musetta separates from Marcello and the four friends return to their lives in the attic. Musetta and Marcello later live together, like Rodolfo and Mimì, who suffers from tuberculosis and wants to separate from Rodolfo because he thinks he can’t help her to heal. Marcello, Rodolfo’s friend, was flirting with his ex-girlfriend Musetta, who forces her companion to pay the bill for everyone. They are drawn to each other at first glance and head for the restaurant together, where his friends are waiting.
The poet Rodolfo does not accompany them because he must finish his writing, but is interrupted by Mimì, a seamstress who lives next door to him. Rodolfo and Marcello are at home working when one of the young men, the musician Schaunard, comes in and they decide to eat at a nearby restaurant. With Ardi Asllani’s costume design and Renold Sula’s scenography.Īt the end of the XIX century in Paris, four friends are living together in a loft. Together with the NTOB Orchestra, NTOB soloists and young soloists engaged in the theater in the past three years perform along with internationally renowned opera singers. The reprise of the opera “La Boheme” is the production of young Albanian artists who have become part of the largest art scene in the country during the last three years of NTOB. The first opera production of the last season, January – June 2019, marked the culmination of the commitment of young creators and artists to an operatic production. The National Theater of Opera, Ballet and Folk Ensemble presents the reprise of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La Boheme” with the libretto of Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, on March 13, 15 and 16 at the Palace of Congresses.