Welsh National Opera - La boheme

Welsh National Opera - La boheme tickets in Oxford

Welsh National Opera brings Puccini's La bohème to New Theatre Oxford in a stark, monochrome production evoking 1930s Paris. Sung in Italian with surtitles in English and Welsh, the performance runs two hours and twenty minutes.

The opera and this production

La bohème follows four young artists sharing a threadbare existence in the Latin Quarter of Paris, making light of poverty while pursuing outsized ambitions. The central love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì is immediate and tender, yet shadowed throughout by fragility and loss.

This Welsh National Opera staging places the action in a deliberately spare, monochrome visual world drawn from the atmosphere of 1930s Paris, keeping the presence of death close throughout. Puccini's score carries the emotional weight of bohemian joy, romantic intensity and grief.

Practical considerations

The production contains flashing and strobe lighting, which prospective audience members with photosensitive conditions should factor into their decision. No age guidance is specified in the available information, so the New Theatre Oxford box office is the best point of contact for families with younger children.

Dates, venues and booking links

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Choosing your tickets

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ATG lists a running time of 2 hours 20 minutes. Confirm the performance time and any interval information when booking.

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