La Boheme is the opera that I love.
is probably the first opera
Full heard as a child.
His story is real and contemporary.
Rodolfo and Mimi are very human.
They are not
symbols or heroes but ordinary people :
love, work, fight,
as many of us do.
Undoubtedly, the music of Puccini is
music feelings,
of feelings, passion and tears.
Andrea Bocelli (1999).
I do not think any composer has ever created a work so immensely beautiful and sad as it is La Boheme (1896) by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) that unlike Madame Butterfly or Tosca has no opponents. In La Boheme is only fate that does not allow Rodolfo and Mimi to be happy. A known destination every day to see their poverty, for example poverty Mimi le prevents access to medicines that could cure the tuberculosis that have, save it and let you make a dream of life by the poor poet who one day falls for her. So how to fight it as default, against this fatal fate Rodolfo wrenching ending that poetry is in the young seamstress Mimi? Can not be more? Apparently not. Death snatches of this world simply for being poor Mimi, nothing more. Has been able to buy the medicines needed for their disease would not have died, and it might have a life of poetry by Rodolfo. However, La Boheme realizes with chilling realism of how ruthless it may be the fate, life, to be ordinary people in the midst of her humility only have the bold aspiration to be happy, as Rodolfo and Mimi.
know who our characters over the mouth of themselves, when to the first act of the opera meet and get acquainted. This act treasures the two most famous arias Puccini ever composed for the voices of the tenor and soprano: Che gelida manina who sings Rodolfo and Sì, mi chiamano Mimì who sings it. In his song not find the story of great deeds, but the description of the moments that constitute their everyday lives: one where ordinary lives are able to find the beauty of life through the appreciation and evaluation of the sublime and small moments that actually have a chance to live.
poor poet Rodolfo is one that wastes rhymes and songs of love, Mimi is a seamstress who weaves flowers have no smell and weaving in some real memory of those that delight the eye each spring. The two are united by their affection for the most romantic season is the European Year. Not only expect each winter term allowed aesthetic satisfaction that as few can afford to have. The hope also because it is the end of the cold days, days with his relentless icy conditions they dig up the little strength they have to work, and then live. Later, they choose to separate, they will receive shortly before this spring, which in one way or another gives them the opportunity to rethink their time and space to come. They know it is not easy, but know that is not to think harder.
Rodolfo and other bohemians, friends, Marcello, Colline and Schaunard also have artistic inclinations, is a painter, philosopher and musician respectively, and the expression of his art are the goodness of life. This surprising bohemian scene precisely how their characters can demonstrate that life can be more beautiful than it looks when you do things that one likes, even if these do not result in fame and fortune. A Mimi and Musetta in turn do the same: one with floral fabric and the second with the waste of her coquetry every time you go down the street and people watch. She, when she sings the famous waltz from Act II vo me'n Quando a lesson that could escape the inattentive viewer's eye: Musetta celebrates the beauty that gave him life, and that already is enough to allow compensate for their poverty. So why choose to spend your life bemoaning what is not when you know and know a pretty woman? Is that bit longer? Certainly not.
But as we talk of life speaks of death. We can not think of things without our minds go its counterpart. Mimi can not celebrate the life you love while knowing that death haunting him every night and disrupts sleep when it gets cough. In La Boheme death is the inevitable antagonist, and say it does not stop to amaze me. Do not for all of us, and yet we left this earth just for the fact of considering this aspect, or that the death appears one day when we least imagine? This is an apparently simple but more complex than it seems. In the midst of his illness and its pain, Mimi no longer want to sleep for their poor suffer more. It is only during the hours of sleep they get relief. And so the fate wants to leave the scene: sleep is finally dies. Rodolfo desperately yell the name of Mimi "to their plight, is not going to cling to life.
The final chords of the opera are the same who sings Mimi moments before his death in andati Sono? fingevo di dormire. Thus, the book wants to perpetuate the image of a simple woman, who lived, went through this world without the rest of his millions of people to realize, although without much material wealth, no left him without knowing what love is.
share the following link which includes the final scene of the opera with accurate death of Mimi, played by the Italian soprano Mirella Freni, and as Rodolfo, seeing death, also Italian Luciano Pavarotti.
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