La Boheme: Chautauqua Opera Company at Chautauqua Institution
Route 394, Chautauqua, NY 14722
For its 2025 season, Chautauqua Opera continues its 95-year history of producing opera at Chautauqua Institution while also strengthening its commitment to developing new opera. The season includes a production of Puccini’s La bohème in Chautauqua’s Amphitheater.
Giacomo Puccini’s lush and ravishing score returns to Chautauqua for the first time since 2003. Stage Director Keturah Stickann (La Traviata, L’Orfeo, The Mother of Us All, and Hansel and Gretel) tells this tragic tale through the eyes of an older and affluent Rodolfo, as the poet is haunted by the ghost of Mimì, and the memory of his fellow bohemians. With a full orchestra in the pit, and a strikingly reimagined chamber chorus framing the central characters on stage, this surprisingly intimate La bohème brings the grand emotions of Italian opera back to Chautauqua’s Amphitheater.
Performance Dates: Wednesday, Aug. 6 at the Amphitheater
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Librettist: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Stage Director: Keturah Stickann
Conductor: Steven Osgood