Opera North's La Bohème. Photograph: Robert Workman Photograph: English Touring Opera. Good opera is important if it makes people feel something (other than indignation, or disappointment!). La Bohème - Opera, Puccini, Act IV: Several months later in the garret. Marcello and Rodolfo are working but are also tormenting each other with remarks about Musetta and Mimì and pretending to be unaffected. Finally, neither can stand it any longer. Marcello furtively removes a ribbon from his pocket and kisses it; Rodolfo does the same with the pink bonnet. They muse sorrowfully on their

Andrews relocates the opera from 1830s Paris to an unspecified big city, somewhere in Europe or the US, in the 1990s. The Bohemians inhabit a run-down loft and, with the exception of Nicholas

Spring may have sprung a bit later this year because of the colder winter, but the New Orleans Opera Association contracts an early dose of spring fever this weekend with

Luciano Pavarotti, alongside his father Fernando Pavarotti, stars in this outstanding production of Puccini's opera, accompanied by the Genoa Opera Company,

It is, once again, an ensemble show. But it owes its emotional punch to the orchestra and conductor Mark Elder, who are the real stars. Boyish bravado, tenderness, urgency, tragedy – they skip
Wanda, a 15-year-old seasoned performer, is appearing in the company’s beloved and lavish “La Bohème.”. Wanda, the donkey making her Metropolitan Opera debut this season, preparing to enter
Henri Murger's series of vignettes concerning four Paris bohemians (Marcel, Rodolphe, Colline and Schaunard) is the basis for Puccini's "La Boheme" and, subsequently, Jonathan Larson's "Rent." The book combines pathos and unexpected good humor to show the difficulties of artistic life in 19th C. Paris.

What good opera directors should do . Audience members who want a traditional La Bohème can head to New York City, where Yannick Nézet-Séguin is currently conducting a revival of the classic Franco Zeffirelli production at the Met, or the Washington, where a similarly faithful interpretation is set to open at the Kennedy Center next week

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