The dancers and extras preparing themselves in the backstage of "La Bohème"'s presentation.

"The [Grove] dictionary concludes [about La Bohème]: 'freed of the conventional narrative restrictions, the opera reveals the symbolic burden of a tragic event, which abruptly interrupts the flow of time. Rodolfo, and all of the others who share your feelings, doesn't have time to think: the tragedy breaks the action, and attaches the pain in the eternity of art'." (Perpetuo)