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Lillian Gish in La Bohème (1926)
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Lillian Gish in La Bohème (1926)
La Bohème (1926) Dir. King Vidor
Lillian Gish
La Boheme (1926)
I got to see La Bohème again last year, had a few thoughts.
It is beautiful to vanish in the joyful flame
Oh god, the flame’s already dying
What a vain, fragile drama
It crackles, curls up, and dies
Rodolfo, Marcello, Colline and Schaunard, La Bohème, Opéra Paris (2017)
La Boheme Liveblog
Today is a momentous day for me in watching opera... you all know what it is...
That's right, it's La Boheme time, my first Puccini opera!
Yeah, sorry, not listening to the Tristan at the Met broadcast. It's really intimidating at 5 hours long and I don't have time for it. Wagner in general will be approached... at some point.
Anyway, La Boheme, an opera I have heard is a good starter opera, so should be fun. And this one is at the Met too! This is a Great Performances broadcast, actually, of the Zeffirelli production.
Cast is Grigoryan as Mimi, De Tommaso as Rodolfo, Stober as Musetta, Meachem as Marcello, Maxwell as Benoit and Alcindoro, Plumb as Schaunard, Park as Colline.
Conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson. And the year this is from is 2025.
And man, the production value already. The Met knows it's stuff, that's for sure.
Most performed opera? I'm expecting it to be worth it then.
Opera Streams: Mid-Late March 2026
15th: Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires from Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Featuring Maria Kataeva, Alejandro Guyot, and Jorge Espino. Free!
15th: Floyd's Of Mice and Men from Houston Grand Opera. Featuring Butler Studio artists Sam Dhobhany, Demetrious Sampson Jr, and Alissa Goretsky. Free!
20th: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Teatro Regio Parma. Featuring Anastasia Bartoli, Luciano Ganci, and Alessandro Luongo. Free!
20th: Denisov's L'Écume des jours from Opéra de Lille. Featuring Josefin Feiler, Cameron Becker, and Katia Ledoux. Free!
20th: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro from Atlanta Opera. Featuring Brandon Cedel, Sydney Mancasola, Rihab Chaieb, and Patrick Carfizzi. Free (with registration)!
20th: [US IPs ONLY] Puccini's La Bohème from the Metropolitan Opera. Featuring Juliana Grigoryan, Freddie de Tommaso, and Heidi Stober. Free! Will also air on PBS stations.
27th: La Grande Affabulation from Opéra-Comique. Featuring the young performers of the Maîtrise Populaire of the Opéra-Comique. Free!
At Some Goddamn Point: Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream from Teatro Real. Featuring Iestyn Davies, Liv Redpath, Thomas Oliemans, Jacques Imbrailo, Clive Bayley, and Christine Rice. Subscription.
Archive notes: Arte recently added Melancholia and a Don Giovanni, which previously featured here on their streaming premieres. La Monnaie/De Munt have posted their maximalist Benvenuto Cellini.
Musetta deserves the world