Opera Short #4: Inspired by Rodolfo and Mimì’s romance in La bohème

The fourth animation in our 2014 Opera Shorts series is based on Puccini’s La bohème. Created by Michael Parkin, Edwood Burn and Jacob Read, students on the Illustration and Animation course at Kingston University, the animation was inspired by the powerful declaration of love between Rodolfo and Mimì. Find out more at We invited a group of students into the Royal Opera House to immerse themselves in what opera is and how it is made. The resulting films are sometimes