‘La Bohème’ comes to the big screen through The Met: Live in HD

The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of “La Bohème” will be livestreamed at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish Nov. 8.  

Sung in Italian with subtitles, Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème” is the story of four struggling bohemians — a poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher — living together in Paris. Their lives are changed forever one freezing Christmas Eve when a girl named Mimi knocks on their door looking to re-light her candle and she and the poet, Rodolfo, fall in love. The rush of love at first sight soon gives way to something much darker — it becomes clear that Mimi is desperately ill and that the impoverished Rodolfo faces the harsh realities of life as he tries to save her.