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...anti-Fascist Tosca is any more moving or convincing than the one driven by love alone is an odd and ultimately speculative judgment to make, like parsing the merits of a “Turandot” set during the Cultural Revolution, or a “La Boh??me” in Vichy Paris. But LHO’s reinterpretation of this particular opera in the context of totalitarianism does bring out an aspect of the work that a production more focused on the stormy individualism of Tosca and Scarpia often overlooks: the notion of freedom as something...
...also cautions them against reaching for the most familiar programming--Beethoven's Fifth! The Nutcracker! Grease!--in the hope of drawing guaranteed crowds. "I talked to an opera company recently that has done some adventurous programming," he says. "But this season they were just doing things like La Boh??me. It wasn't selling at all, and I'm not surprised. People have seen lots of La Boh??me. They don't need to see another...
After a series of recordings with Sutherland, Pavarotti made a sensational Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boh??me in 1968. Much in demand today, he is interested only in the bel canto composers and Verdi. "My dream is Il Trovatore," he says, "but it is so demanding that I will not try it for at least five years." Opera lovers will not have to wait that long to hear him at his best, however. His current singing season will reach a peak at the Met next month, when he sings in Donizetti's rarely performed The Daughter of the Regiment...
...visit since reviewing it 12 years ago--looks a bit paler than it did back in 1996, when it opened off-Broadway to so much acclaim that it made the jump to Broadway just two months later. The aids-centric story lines in this East Village update of La Boh??me seem a little dated now, and the umpteenth replacement cast doesn't have the snap, or the voices, of originals like Anthony Rapp and Idina Menzel. Still, when the last performance of Rent plays on June 1, ending the seventh longest run in Broadway history, it will leave...
...anyone considering a career in the arts, it’s difficult to escape the fear of becoming an archetypal starving artist. Imagine living like the characters in “La Boh??me,” in an unheated garrett, always behind on the rent. Investment bankers don’t have to go through those trials and tribulations, do they?Compared to the sciences or humanities, where Harvard’s ability to lay foundations for future success is relatively unquestioned, there are persistent doubts about the relevance or future value of a Visual and Environmental Studies...