Hungry, cold, broke, and deliriously in love, the artists in Puccini’s masterpiece break hearts over and over again each time it is performed, with pulses quickening as Rodolfo lights Mimì’s candle anew.

The Dallas Opera’s treasured period production returns with a fresh cast of some of opera’s brightest rising stars, transporting audiences to the cafés and corridors of Paris’s Latin Quarter as tragedy hovers nearby.