BY KAREN BOSSICK

The heartbreaking story of “La Boheme” will be brought to the big screen on Saturday when Sun Valley Opera and Broadway and Merlin’s Magic Lantern present The Metropolitan Opera’s live simulcast.

Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with the screening beginning at 10:55 a.m. Settle in because the running time is three hours and 30 minutes with one intermission during which behind-the-scenes interviews will be shown.

The world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking.

Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo.

Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the spellbinding score, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide.