La Bohème

A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Their turbulent everyday lives, which alternate between dreariness and pleasure-seeking, take a new direction when two self-confident women enter the scene. With wit and chutzpah, all six defend their non-conformist way of life against economic and social constraints. While they remain in the provisional and precarious, fate already has other plans. Giacomo Puccini's opera, which premiered in 1896, made the friends from Henri Murger's novel "Scenes from the Life of the Bohemians" world-famous. His musical translation of the tragic love between the seamstress Mimì and the poet Rodolfo hits the heart with unerring precision. "We'll only part when the flowers bloom again", the couple promise each other, but Mimì is already terminally ill. In "La Bohème", director and set designer Blanka Rádóczy, who was named the best up-and-coming director of 2017 for her production "Teorema" in the "Theater heute" critics' survey, shows (super)artists of life in an increasingly hostile world.