On Dec. 3, the Polish National Opera will showcase a new production of Puccini’s “La Bohème.”

The production will be directed by Barbara Wysocka who says “La Bohème is a story about great emotions, breakups, and returns, about ruthless destiny and loss. What will be the most important in this staging? The image of the artist community in the landscape of a big city, the theme of illness as the “night side of life” and the story of love that does not always win and sometimes loses to illness and death.”

Patrick Fournillier conducts the opera with Adriana Ferfecka and Maria Domżał sharing the role of Mimi and Davide Giusti and Francesco Castoro as Rodolfo.

The cast also includes Aleksandra Orłowska and Anna Jeruć as Musetta, Ilya Kutyukhin and Tomasz Rak as Marcello, Sławomir Kowalewski and Bartosz Misiuda as Schaunard, Jerzy Butryn and Łukasz Konieczny as Colline, Dariusz Machej and Grzegorz Szostak as Benoit, and Paweł Czekała as Alcindoro.

“La Bohème” is set to run until Dec. 12, 2021.