“You get the feeling that ‘Boheme’ always stays ’Boheme,’” Sharon said. “I think that’s been to its detriment because it gets to seem routine in the way we think about a piece that is so fresh. You fall in love with it instantly, and yet it suffers from familiarity.” Marc...
Rebecca J. Ritzel
Advertisement “La Boheme,” the beloved romantic opera of Bohemian life in 19th-Century Paris, concerns a group of starving artists--the poet Rudolpho, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard and the philosopher Colline. They’re struggling to pursue careers, rarely eating, living in a gar...
La Mère Catherine's story is steeped in history, much like the cobblestone streets of Montmartre itself. Founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, this restaurant was a meeting place for artists, poets, and revolutionaries of the time. The restaurant's unique name, "La Mère Catherine," ...
Another Riches to Rags Success Story ; OPERA la Boheme Covent Garden . . .EVERY couple of years the Royal Opera's 1974 staging of La Boheme hoves into view like the last tea clipper on the high seas grand, stately, fussy, elaborate but still boasting an astonishing power to move. This ...
Lynch, Kevin
La Bohème, opera in four acts by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, on February 1, 1896. The story, a sweetly tragic romance, was based on the epis