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Performances Begin June 3, 2025

La Bohème

By Giacomo Puccini

Overview

Composer

Giacomo Puccini

Dates

Jun 3—Jun 21, 2025

Libretto

Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Price

Starting at $28

Run Time

2 hours 15 minutes with one intermission

Language

Italian

The Glow of Love. The Warmth of Friendship. The Ache of Loss.

Rent is overdue, and the poet Rodolfo’s manuscript is reduced to kindling. But as the fire in the hearth dwindles, passion burns brightly amongst a group of young friends.

La Bohème takes us into the heady bohemian world of nineteenth century Paris, as we follow a circle of starving artists falling in and out of love, living for the moment.

Experience the soaring highs and heartbreaking lows of bohemian life in John Caird’s beloved production of Puccini’s most adored opera. 

See a Performance

Learn more about La Bohème during a 90-minute exploration of the music and history, led by dynamic opera experts and scholars. Click on the Opera Previews button below for more information.
Opera Previews
OperaVision, HD video projection screens featured in the Balcony level for the first three performances.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Pre-Opera Talks
Join us 55 minutes before every performance for an engaging 20-minute overview of the opera.  Click on the below Learn More button for more information.

PRE-OPERA TALKS

 

Synopsis

  * San Francisco Opera Debut

Co-production of San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Canadian Opera Company

Made Possible By

This production is made possible, in part, by Jerome L. and Thao N. Dodson; Bertie Bialek Elliott; Staffan and Margareta Encrantz;
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn; Elizabeth B. Jamieson (in memoriam, J. Burgess Jamieson); Franklin and Catherine Johnson; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem; and Dianne and Tad Taube