La Boheme News
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Have you ever wondered what became of Rodolfo, the penniless poet in Puccini’s opera “La Boheme,” after the death of his beloved Mimi?
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When John Copley was asked to direct “La Boheme” at London’s Royal Opera, he was told the production had to be good enough to last at least five or six years.
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Even a dog can’t run away with the show when Roberto Alagna is on stage. As the sweetly silly farmhand in “L’Elisir d’Amore,” now at London’s Royal Opera House, the tenor hogs the limelight with his seductive voice and athletic belly flops.
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The bar staff is collecting empty glasses. Crowds of drinkers are chatting and laughing. A shifty- looking guy tries to sell pirate DVDs from a dirty bag. It’s a normal night out in London’s Soho.
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Luciano Pavarotti once described the acoustics of the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires as so perfect that they challenge singers because “if one does something wrong, it is noted immediately.”
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Once a popular musician or writer has been around the block a few times, he acquires the tag “national treasure.” It’s the kind of pat on the head that usually spells creative death. Not for Thomas Allen.
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Rodolfo is a filmmaker living in student squalor, sleeping on a mattress on the floor in Damiano Michieletto’s cinematic “La Boheme” at the Salzburg Festival.
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Mimi, Rodolfo and their band of boastful poets, proud losers and eternal ravers crowd onto the stage of La Monnaie/De Munt tonight for a year-end run.
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Although mezzo Joyce DiDonato swings both ways, operatically speaking, now even she has a juicy new opportunity for gender bending.
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The contrast couldn’t be starker. While the French government is closing gypsy camps and sending many of the occupants back to Romania, the Grand Palais in Paris is devoting a large show to them.
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