Sonya Yoncheva and Charles Castronovo lead an award-winning cast in Richard Jones’s acclaimed production of Puccini’s most heartrending opera. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus in some of the composer’s most luscious and memorable music.

Spectacular designs by Stewart Laing for this Royal Opera production set the passion, friendship, comedy and tragedy in a late 19th-century Paris. The production evokes the vulnerability of youth amid the harshness and glamour of the big city, and contrasts the poverty of the bohemians’ attic home with the splendour of Paris’s shopping arcades on Christmas Eve.

“Exuberant and persuasive… performed with élan” – The Guardian

“All the central performances are strong… Charles castronovo is an energetic, lyrical Rodolfo…” – The Stage ****

“Covent Garden’s Puccini revival is a snowy spectacle…” – The Times

“Emmanuel Villaume conducts with plenty of virile exuberance…” – The Daily Telegraph

Extra Features:
- Why The Royal Opera love performing La bohème
- Antonio Pappano discusses the music of La bohème
- Cast Gallery

Cast:
- Rodolfo: Charles Castronovo
- Mimì: Sonya Yoncheva
- Marcello: Andrzej Filonczyk
- Musetta: Simona Mihai
- Schaunard: Gyula Nagy
- Colline: Peter Kellner
- Benoît: Jeremy White
- Alcindoro: Eddie Wade
- Parpignol: Andrew Macnair

Director: Richard Jones
Set designer: Stewart Laing
Lighting designer: Mimi Jordan Sherin
Movement director: Sarah Fahie
Directed for the Screen by Jonathan Haswell

Duration: approx. 118 minutes
Audio: LPCM 2.0 & DTS Digital Surround 5.1
Subtitles: EN, FR, DE, JP, KO