Donald Westwood's Belleayre Festival Opera - Puccini's La Boheme Starring Diana McVey as Mimi

Join our enthusiastic audience and be trans- ported to 19th-century Paris via the world's favorite Puccini opera, performed by a com- pany of 50 singers and musicians, including members of Richard Tucker's Community Chorale of the Catskills.

Donald Westwood's spectacular new production, created exclusively for the Belleayre Music Festival, features a cast of today's most gifted young opera stars, led by brilliant soprano Diana McVey, Violetta in last season's magnificent La Traviata. Opera at Belleayre is like opera nowhere else. Experience fabulous natural acoustics and up-close viewing under our big top, as the precarious lives and passionate loves of artists, poets and musicians in the Latin Quarter come to life in glorious sound and visual opulence. Performed in Italian with SuperTitles.

La Boheme is Donald Westwood's 14th main-stage production for Belleayre. His productions have been called "exemplary" by The New York Times, "a welcome addition to this city's music" by New York magazine and "a dynamic alternative to the giants at Lincoln Center" by Opera News. Mara Waldman, Music Director and Conductor of last season's La Traviata, returns to conduct La Boheme.