Don your opening night best for the Australian premiere of Gale Edwards' new La boheme and welcome powerhouse soprano Takesha Meshe Kizart (Mimi), and award-winning tenor Ji-Min Park (Rodolfo) to Melbourne. In Gale's visionary new production, Puccini's bohemians are transported to 1920s' Berlin, where friends, lovers and artists collide in a city on the brink of change. The glitter of the Spiegeltent provides a decadent veneer over the hand-to-mouth existence. Here, a poet, a writer, a composer and an artist live in poverty, believe in love, and love in art.