A Bougie “Bohème”

After more than 35 years, I think I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with the Metropolitan Opera’s perennial production of Puccini’s La Bohème.

It’s about youth: vital, headstrong, ignorant (or at least disdainful) of mortality. [Observer]

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