31 December 2015
Venue: Joan Sutherland Theatre
Presented by: Opera Australia
Gale Edwards’ glittering production provides a perfect setting for New Year’s Eve: in the bohemian streets of 1930s Berlin, in the color and chaos of street fairs and burlesque bars, fairy lights and fishnet stockings.
Description
A painter, a musician, a philosopher and a poet are having a night on the town. Café Momus is too pricey for them — they’ve nothing to weigh down those moth-eaten pockets. But why worry? The landlord is sorted, the bar tab can wait. They’re young and their lofty ideals will keep body and soul together.
And then there’s love. Ah, love. That tingle of electricity as two hands meet. The fire in the eyes of the girl you want so badly. Love will keep us warm, won’t it?
Nearly 120 years after Puccini wrote his smash-hit La bohème, this story of first love still tops the list of most performed operas around the world.
Perhaps the tale of four friends living for their art reminds us of a person we weren’t brave enough to become. Perhaps Puccini’s talent for capturing emotion in music takes us back to the first time we felt love stir in our hearts.
Perhaps it’s just that La bohème is a story we understand. It’s about friendship and falling in love.
It’s about sacrifice and never giving up, even if it means parting with your lover — or your favorite coat.
Gale Edwards’ glittering production provides a perfect setting for these utterly human emotions: in the bohemian streets of 1930s Berlin, in the color and chaos of street fairs and burlesque bars, fairy lights and fishnet stockings.
NEW YEAR’S EVE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
A painter, a musician, a philosopher and a poet are having a night on the town. Café Momus is too pricey for them — they’ve nothing to weigh down those moth-eaten pockets. But why worry? The landlord is sorted, the bar tab can wait. They’re young and their lofty ideals will keep body and soul together.
And then there’s love. Ah, love. That tingle of electricity as two hands meet. The fire in the eyes of the girl you want so badly. Love will keep us warm, won’t it?
Nearly 120 years after Puccini wrote his smash-hit La bohème, this story of first love still tops the list of most performed operas around the world.
Perhaps the tale of four friends living for their art reminds us of a person we weren’t brave enough to become. Perhaps Puccini’s talent for capturing emotion in music takes us back to the first time we felt love stir in our hearts.
Perhaps it’s just that La bohème is a story we understand. It’s about friendship and falling in love.
It’s about sacrifice and never giving up, even if it means parting with your lover — or your favorite coat.
Gale Edwards’ glittering production provides a perfect setting for these utterly human emotions: in the bohemian streets of 1930s Berlin, in the color and chaos of street fairs and burlesque bars, fairy lights and fishnet stockings.
NEW YEAR’S EVE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSENew Year’s Eve is the night when Sydney puts on the bling, kicks up its heels and shows the world what a gorgeous thing it is, as a festival of fire explodes across the midnight sky.
Ringside seats to the greatest show on earth are hard to come by, but we’ve saved some great ones, and you’re invited.
Leave the crowds behind as you enter the Sydney Opera House.
Choose to settle back for an evening with Rodolfo, Mimi, Marcello and Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème.
Then, with a heart full of song, watch the fireworks the whole world watches. Interval is timed for the 9pm fireworks and the Sydney Opera House stays open well past the midnight fireworks.
There’s nowhere in the world like Sydney on New Year’s Eve and there’s nowhere closer to the action than Sydney Opera House. Make this your most glamorous and memorable New Year ever.
It’s guaranteed to end with a bang!
Opera, My Love Magazine 