The South African team behind 2005 Golden Bear winner “U-Carmen eKhayelitsha” will be taking a new adaptation of “La Boheme” to Berlin this year. “Breathe — Umphefumlo,” which transports the classic ...
Through a unique partnership with Emerging Pictures, the Warner Theatre will present “La Boheme” on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. and again on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. This is the first in a ...
Set in current-day New York, this filmed opera reimagines La bohme by glorifying rooftops, mattresses, and the grungy, sexy, dirty world of being in your early twenties in the city that never sleeps.
Maybe Rodolfo is right. Maybe Mimi is an incorrigible flirt. In most productions of Puccini's "La Boheme," we meet the seamstress Mimi demurely asking the poet Rodolfo to light her candle. Robert ...
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This version of La Bohème is not based on the libretto of Puccini's opera, but goes back to that work's source: Henri Murger's 1851 French stories Scènes de la vie de bohème (Scenes from Bohemian Life ...
A stellar review in Opera News raves: “It’s probably fair to say that this Bohème is one of the best filmic realizations of an opera since Francesco Rosi’s 1984 Carmen. Although the entire production ...
Aki Kaurismaki’s “La Vie de Boheme” is Puccini’s “La Boheme” shorn of the opera’s cloying sentimentality and threepenny lyricism. The Finnish filmmaker’s source for this film — being screened at 7:30 ...
La bohème, Puccini’s romantic tale of aspiring writers struggling in poverty in Paris’s Latin Quarter, has been through many varied transformations in its charmed life as one of the world’s most ...