Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-09
SINGLA BOHEME
At OPERA HOUSE
At CUT PRICES
De FoIco Grand Opera Company
to Repeat Mondays Success
at Low Admission Fee

/ Puccini'S La BOheme. we'll sung
| Saturday night by the De Folco Grand
Opera Company, will be repeated this
/ evening at the Opera House at the re-
duced price OF so cents a seat all over
the house. Last evening the company
gave a concert of selected operate
numbers and scenes.
/ The following program for the re-
mainder of the week was announced
| this cfte-noon
Thursday Night.
La Boheme," so cents, any seat in
the house.
Friday Night.
"Lohengrin." Prices: $3.50, 81, Is
cents and so cents; performance be-
/ gins at 7:30; season tickets not hon
ored.
Saturday Matinee.
Grand farewell concert by entire
company in costume. Prices: 81, rs
cents. so cents. y
Since 1896, when it was first pro-
duced at Turin, Puccinis La Bo-
/ heme" has been among the most DOB
ular OF grand operas, and has served
to furnish congenial roles for such
great artists as Geraldine Ferrar. Mad
anne Sembrich and Alma Chuck, as
well as Caruso, Martin, Scott and
Campanari.
As is indicated by the title, the
opera Is built around Bohemian life in
the Latin quarter in Paris, and the
plot is loosely based on Murger's LA
Vie Boheme."
The opening scene shows four hap
py-go-lucky student friends: Rudolph,
poet; Marcel, painter; Colline, a
philosopher, and Schaunard, must
clan. They are penniless, but gay.
When Rudolph is alone on the stage a
knock on the door is heard and he ad-
mits Mimi, a young girl who lives in
the attic above. Her candle has gone
out and she comes for a light. Ru-
dolph, in the famous Narrative" tells
of his life, and Mimi, in mi Chiamano
Mimi" recounts that she makes a
meager living by making artificial
flowers At the end, love dawning.
they start for an evening of jollity at
the Cafe Nomus. 49,.
Act two is gay, representing ter
race at the cafe. Here Marcel meets
an old sweetheart, Musetta, who de-
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with, leaving him to settle the score.
In this act is seen the first indication
of Rudolph's jealousy Of Minis pos
sible past lovers. <y
Act three represents the city gate.
It is cherries, gray dawn, with
snow sitting down--a mood well ex-
pressed in the Puccini score. Mimi
appears and finds Marcel, now reduced
to house painting. She tells him she
can no longer endure Rudolph's jeal-
ousies and suspicious. Later, con-
cealed, she hears Rudolph express
these suspicious to Marcel, and after
fit of coughing reveals her, sings a
sad little farewell, but a partial re-
Cancellation is effected. Musetta and
Marcel then have q furious quarrel.
In the last act, which shows again
the first act scene, Marcel and Ru-
dolph are seen pretending to work,
but each is in reality pining for his
sweetheart. Presently the two other
students come with provisions and
they have a feast, which Musetta in
terrupts with word that Mimi, sick
and abandoned, has come back to die.
A reconciliation is effected, but Mimi,
weakened by her privations, dies just
as they are planning happy future
together, and the curtain falls on the
wild grief of Rudolph and the group of
weeping friends,