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 ...
La Bohème, which marks Puccini’s emergence as a fully mature and original composer, contains some of the most-memorableariasand musical scenes in opera. Throughout, Puccini relies on short musical motifs that represent characters, themes, and moods so that themusicunderscores and highlights aspect...
“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 garret. But th...