GTMF starts Met series with ‘La Bohème’ – JH News&Guide

It’s all convivial feasting and passionate romance until someone gets consumption.

The “Bohemian life” developed in early 19th-century France out of a romanticization of the wandering Romani people, who were often associated with Bohemia, part of what is now the Czech Republic. Many an artist — painters, poets, musicians, performers — adapted some version of a carefree, unconventional, albeit precarious existence. That, in turn, inspired many others, from the Beat writers of the 1940s and ’50s to Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of vignettes, “Scene of Bohemian Life,” which in turn serves as the model of one of the most vivid and enduring portraits of Parisian free spirits, Giacomo Puccini’s 1893 opera “La Bohème.”

The Grand Teton Music Festival presents the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025 revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of “La Bohème,” the first of four “Live in HD” screenings through the winter and spring. Puccini’s work, consistently in the top five most-produced operas each year, starts at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Center for the Arts theater.

By Richard Anderson

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