La bohème Opéra de Monte Carlo

In the cold of winter an exuberant poet lives in poverty with his three bohemian flatmates His heart is warmed when he falls in love with his fragile neighbour but then her illness takes a turn for the worse In Opéra de Monte Carlos production of Puccinis beloved opera set in Paris to the interwar period the artists misery looks more like a chosen lifestyle than a suffered fate JeanLouis Grindas sumptuous staging reflects on Puccinis romantic glorification of the precariousness of the human condition