Puccini’s La Bohème: “Dunque è proprio finita!” (Juliana Grigoryan, Freddie De Tommaso)

Juliana Grigoryan and Freddie De Tommaso sing an excerpt from Mimì and Rodolfo’s Act III duet in the final dress rehearsal. Production: Franco Zeffirelli. Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson. 2025–26 season. A passionate, timeless story of young love in 19th-century Paris, La Bohème can easily stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to both make a powerful first impression and to reveal previously unnoticed treasures after dozens of hearings. Throughout, Puccini perfectly captures the “small people” (as he called them) of the drama and explores the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things—a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor—that make up our everyday lives. Learn more and buy tickets at metopera.org or on the Met Opera app.