LA BOHÈME - Second Proyect 462-A

LA BOHÈME                      19 January, 2020  

Second Project                                   Cavanzo Jimenez Axel Yair 462 - A

La Boème is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini and libretto (in Italian) by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Launched in 1897.

The story tells the company of 4 artists who share a penthouse as a home in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. Mainly the story focuses on the love of a dressmaker named Mimi and one of the artists, the poet Rodolfo.

It is divided into 4 acts.

The first, entitled "In the attic room of the four bohemians" presents the bohemians (artists), who are:

Rodolfo, the poet

Marcello, painter

Colline, a philosopher

Schaunard, a musician.

The four appear on stage, making it clear that they are poor, have no food, but are very cold. (too much cold)

The artists are going to have a coffee after Schaunard arrived with money, food and wood that he got thanks to his new job with an English gentleman; All but Rodolfo, who says he stays at home to finish some writings he does. Mimi arrives, a dressmaker who lives down the building. This asks Rodolfo for help to light his candles that have gone out, but accidentally they lock in the room and in the dark because the candles went out and in an attempt to share time with Mimi, Rodolfo pretends to have lost his keys. His friends arrive impatient to find Rodolfo.

Then they begin to sing about a new love that has been born between Rodolfo and Mimi

In the second act called "Latin Quarter on Christmas Eve", friends take to the streets. The quintet of friends (the bohemians and the dressmaker) are among the crowd. Rodolfo buys a pink hat that he gives to Mimi.

Then they arrive at the cafeteria where they meet Marcello's ex, Musseta, who is a singer who is now with her husband Alcindoro, who is old and rich. Musseta makes an attempt to get Marcello's attention by reciting a song, and he succeeds and makes him feel jealous.

Musseta then pretends that her shoe is broken to send her husband to change it so he can be alone with his former love affair with whom they reconcile. Already when the bohemions want to leave, they decide that it is a good idea to charge the price to the account Alcindoro.

Representation of the opera during act 2.

In the picture you see the friends in the cafe while Musetta

(red dress) dances to wax Marcello

In the third act, "At a toll gate a month or two later", Mimi is in a toll station looking for Marcello who wants to tell him how difficult it 

has been to live with Rodolfo, that had left his home the night before, coincidentally Rodolfo looked for an inn in the tavern where Marcello lives. Rodolfo wakes up and then Mimi hides from him. Then Rodolfo talks his friend Marcello, He kites him that he does not want to be with her because she is too flirtatious with other men, in addition to knowing that she is getting sick from something deadly (It is believed that the disease was tuberculosis). They are interrupted by Mimi's cough and it is when they decide to speak and agree to separate amicably

In the fourth act "The attic room", the Bohemians find themselves working. it is when Musseta arrives saying that Mimi had found a rich gentleman, but that he abandoned him and now he is wandering the streets alone and weak, shattered by disease.

Then they go for her and take her inside the attic, it is where Rodolfo alone with Mimi, in an act of pure love gives Mimi the pink hat she had bought when they first met, that I keep as a reminder of the love he has always had.

As last moments together, they begin to remember their first meetings of the candle and the keys and in a last duo of love singing Mimi inevitably dies.

Mimi dies in the last act while her lover stops her. The friends had sought medicine, but they arrived very late.