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Opera Honors Award winner The San Diego Opera (SDO) has ample experience in staging Puccini's masterpiece La Boheme, considering it was their first-ever production! Their last stab at the opera was an innovative 2020 drive-in-version directed by Keturah Stickann, who also returns to direct the 2024 staging. Lidiya Yankovskaya a conductor of 40 world premieres and 17 operas, is making her SDO debut and will lead the SDO Symphony in performing Puccini's most wondrous arias. It's safe to say that the classic is in great hands!

Puccini's La Bohme has been a staple in opera repertoires all across the world for over a century, and has inspired great modern love stories such as Rent and Moulin Rouge!. New talent Kathleen O'Mara (Nov. 1 & 3) and Sarah Tucker (Nov. 2) will alternate in the role of Mim, while Joshua Blue (Nov. 1 & 3) and Csar Delgado (Nov. 2) portray Rodolfo. Latonia Moore will play Musetta, with Leroy Davis as Marcello, Harold Wilson as Colline, and Sren Pedersen as Schaunard.

Who are the Bohemians?

Since the nineteenth Century, people have been referring to bohemians, who were usually artists, musicians and writers who lived life for the experience (and the absinthe.) The characters of La Boheme are just like that, down on luck and rent, but high on love and life. There's Roldofo and Mimi, an everlasting couple for whom struggle often gets in the middle, and Muschetta and Marcello, the outrageous, flirtatious ones who always seem to find their way back to each other. You can't fail to enjoy the riotous and charismatic tales of these wild young things!