La Bohème

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“Even if a company sells out every single performance of ‘La bohème’ at the top tier of ticket prices,” Ms. Vincent writes, “even if they sell out their entire season of performances—it’ll barely move the dial. And things are only getting worse.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Consider a 2017 staging, by Claus Guth, of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme” at the Paris Opera, set on a spaceship during an expedition gone awry.

From The Wall Street Journal

Puccini’s melodic gift in works like “La Bohème” and “Tosca” captured emotional intensity and sweeping romanticism.

From Salon

“What, and next are you going to complain that Rent was set in the Village when it should have been set in nineteenth-century Paris to be a proper adaptation of La Bohème? Or that West Side Story doesn’t have anything to do with Shakespeare because it’s not in Verona? We are the reason that Broadway cares about speaking directly to its audience while the West End is all about glam-rock megamusicals and dancing cats.”

From Literature

In 2012, when Los Angeles Opera had once again revived a 19-year-old production of “La Bohème” — fancied for its Toulouse-Lautrec-inspired sets, cinematic pizzazz and echt-romanticized filmic story telling by Hollywood director Herbert Ross — I wrote that the beloved production has earned its keep, but no production lasts forever.

From Los Angeles Times