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La Bohème

23 August – 20 September 2025

In the Joan Sutherland Theatre

Opera Australia

Opera

Step into glittering 1930s Berlin in this spectacular staging of an opera’s most moving classic.

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Experience the romance of the original bohemian love story

The way first love grabs hold and floods you with something you’ve never felt before. The fire that burns you the first time jealousy flares. The growing up you do in the instant you realise love can’t last forever.

Some emotions are too big for words alone, and for that, we have music. La Bohème is the original bohemian love story – the opera that inspired RENT and Moulin Rouge.

Puccini’s score exposes your soul to the feelings that only music can express. It soars with the ecstasy of love, crackles with the pain of jealousy and cries with the agony of loss.

Gale Edwards’ glittering production, set in the fairy light-filled cabarets of 1930s Berlin, is a long-time favourite of audiences.

Presented by Opera Australia

Artist information

Conductor  Erina Yashima
Director  Gale Edwards
Set Designer  Brian Thomson
Costume Designer  Julie Lynch
Lighting Designer  John Rayment


Mimi  Olivia Cranwell
Rodolfo  Kang Wang (Aug 23-Sep 16), Iain Henderson (Sep 18 & 20) 
Musetta  Rachelle Durkin

Opera Australia Orchestra
Opera Australia Chorus

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