Puccini’s best loved opera

In Paris, in the snow and in love

In a world of artistic endeavour and poverty, with their whole futures ahead of them, four young men and two young women explore early adult life and love. The inseparable group of friends share each other’s ups and downs. No trial lasts long, and all mistakes are easily forgotten.

But something in the future will test their joie de vivre. While they all picture big things a few years off, one of them already lives in the darkening shadow of death.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

La bohème, 16 August 2025

Following three spectacularly successful performances at the Exeter Northcott Barnfield Theatre in May, Devon Opera’s La bohème returns to the stage for a further performance at at the beautiful BOWRINGSLEIGH ESTATE in South Devon