She eventually succeeds and Musetta and Marcello reconcile.

Greedy for attention, she tries to get Marcello to notice her.

Musetta, Marcello’s former girlfriend, enters with the wealthy Alcindoro. Once at the café, she easily fits in with Rodolfo’s friends. On the street, people are everywhere, selling and buying wares. Wanting to stay with Rodolfo, Mimì asks to join him at the café. Rodolfo’s friends yell to him from downstairs to hurry. Her name is Mimì and it is clear that the two have fallen in love. Rodolfo takes her hand and they tell each other about their lives. Rodolfo gives her the light she seeks.Īs she is leaving, her tiny flame goes out again. Rodolfo stays behind to work a short while longer.Ī young woman happens upon the attic in search of a flame for her candle. The friends then divvy up Schaunard’s money and leave for the café. The friends feign outrage at Benoit’s infidelity and shove him out the door. They fill him with wine as a distraction, which causes him to boast of his amorous trysts, despite being married. He is followed by Schaunard, their musician friend and roommate, who shares the wood, food and wine he just bought with money he earned playing his violin.Īs the friends prepare to go out for the night, they are interrupted by Benoit, their landlord, coming to collect the rent. Soon after, Colline, one of their roommates, enters. With nothing to light the stove, Rodolfo tosses in the manuscript of the play he is writing. It’s bitterly cold in the attic where Rodolfo, a poet, lives a poor existence with his friend Marcello.

Libretto written by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe GiacosaĪn attic in the Latin Quarter in Paris on Christmas Eve Premiered on Februat Teatro Reggio in Turin, Italy

La boheme opera short synopsis