What’s on
Summer 2025:
Four struggling bohemians — a poet, a painter, a musician, and a philosopher — share a cramped attic in Paris. It's Christmas Eve, the city is bitterly cold, and their lives are warmed only by friendship, art, and fleeting moments of joy. But everything changes when a quiet knock at the door introduces Mimì, a gentle seamstress searching for a candlelight — and sparking a powerful love at first sight with Rodolfo, the poet.
Yet as quickly as love blooms, the shadows gather. Mimì is gravely ill, and Rodolfo, unable to provide the care she needs, is left haunted by his helplessness.
In this poignant reimagining, Cardiff Cotswold Opera sets Puccini’s timeless tale in the post-war world of 1919 Paris — a city reeling from conflict and on the cusp of a devastating pandemic. Against this backdrop of fragile hope and looming tragedy, La Bohème becomes more than a love story: it’s a reflection on resilience, sacrifice, and the fleeting beauty of life.
for tickets please visit:
June 28th: Cotswold Playhouse
all other performances: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-cotswold-opera
Our past productions
The stage is set. The singers are ready. The audience is in their seats. There's just one tiny problem... the Diva's been murdered!
Jonathan Dove and Alisdair Middleton's stunning operatic adaptation of Jane Austen's well-loved tale of love and social convention
A bustling 1920s hotel. What better place for Figaro to hatch his schemes and play his games amid the heartfelt, innocent love story of his two best friends?
Love, life, and loss through the streets of Paris, 1919. Our production combines the beauty of Puccini with the context of a world post war seeing the onset of one of the worst pandemics in history
Set in the halls of a grand old university we explore the politics and archaic nature of Mozart's well-loved classic, pitting the corruption of the corporate world against the hallowed halls of study
Think Friends meets Mozart. A bawdy comedy set in the apartment of two young women going through the trials of young love and making the audience wonder... do these 6 people in their 20s ever go to work?
