Rodolfo takes the young woman’s icy hand and tells her of his life as a poet. Rodolfo’s candle also goes out and they search for her key in the moonlight. As she is leaving, her candle flickers out again and she realizes that she has lost her key. She feels faint from climbing the stairs. It is a young woman who asks for a light for her candle.
Marcello, Colline, and Schaunard head to Café Momus, leaving Rodolfo behind to finish an article. The Bohemians pretend outrage at Benoît’s immorality and push him out. The friends decide to go to eat in the Latin Quarter but are interrupted by Benoît, their landlord, who has come for the rent. They ply him with wine and Benoît boasts of his sexual prowess.
He explains that an Englishman engaged him to play his violin to hasten the death of a parrot. Schaunard enters with wood, food, and wine. Colline enters and the remaining acts of the play are burned. They need to light their stove: Marcello suggests using a chair, but Rodolfo offers themanuscript of the play he is writing. Rodolfo and Marcello complain about the bitter cold. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.An attic in the Latin Quarter, Christmas Eve
Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano.
The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. Rounding out the cast are soprano Susanna Phillips, baritones Lucas Meachem and Alexey Lavrov, and bass Matthew Rose as the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging, an audience favorite for more than 40 years. In this encore performance from 2018, soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Michael Fabiano star as the young lovers Mimì and Rodolfo in Puccini’s timeless love story. Stage on Screen is The Roxy’s ongoing series of the world’s greatest contemporary theatrical performances, from the Metropolitan Opera to London’s National Theatre to the Bolshoi Ballet and beyond, projected on the big screen.
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