After being created in 2017 at Scottish Opera the production was presented with great success in Switzerland, Canada and France. It is a delight to bring it back to Scotland for 14 performances.
 

“ A show to delight and captivate (…) First unveiled in 2017, director/designers André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s big, bold, colourful production of La bohème for Scottish Opera has an awful lot going for it – not least its exuberant theatricality and stage-filling activity. (…) Barbe and Doucet’s cast are just as vivid and characterful as the production (…) it’s surely a show to delight and captivate” THE SCOTSMAN - Oct 16, 2025

“ The Canadian ‘three musketeers’ of opera have returned to Glasgow, reviving their 2017 La bohème for Scottish Opera. Renaud Doucet and Andre Barbe’s detailed stage direction clever set and beautiful costume design were strikingly lit by their collaborator and friend Guy Simard, (…) La bohème may be a sentimental tale, but Barbe and Doucet play up the humour and vitality of the bohemian camaraderie to make it a crowd-pleaser of a fine show” BACHTRACK - Oct 14, 2025

“ A wealth of visual spectacle is to be assumed with Barbe & Doucet, and it was delivered. (…) The street scenes of the Prologue and Act II benefitted from the highest standards of movement direction (…) This ‘La bohème’ revival is another triumph for Scottish Opera. “ EDINBURGH MUSIC REVIEW - Oct 14, 2025

“Absolutely superb. (…) This production – a revival of André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s 2017 production for Scottish Opera – is absolutely superb, as is the lighting design of Guy Sinard. (…) The intimate scenes are superb – each of the six major characters is real, passionately alive and wanting to feel all the intensity of the emotions sweeping through them.  The crowd scenes are handled brilliantly – one could see them many times and still find new bits of business one hadn’t seen before. (…) it was a splendid evening showcasing the very best that Scottish Opera has to offer. (…) Let this glorious production and Puccini’s heartrending music carry you away to the land where all that matters is love.” SCOTS ARTS - Oct 17, 2025