In the cold of winter, an exuberant poet lives in poverty with his three bohemian flatmates. His heart is warmed when he falls in love with his fragile neighbour, but then her illness takes a turn for the worse. In Opéra de Monte Carlo's production of Puccini’s beloved opera, set in Paris to the interwar period, the artists’ misery looks more like a chosen lifestyle than a suffered fate. Jean-Louis Grinda’s sumptuous staging reflects on Puccini’s romantic glorification of the precariousness of the human condition.
Jean-Louis Grinda
Director
Irina Lungu
Mariam Battistelli
Andeka Gorrotxategi
Davide Luciano
Boris Pinkhassovitch
Nicolas Courjal
Fabrice Alibert
Guy Bonfiglio
Vincenzo Cristofoli
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