We tend to view “bohemia” through a hagiographic lens, but its inception, as depicted by the French writer Henri Murger in a series of vignettes entitled Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851), was hardly ...

It has been three years since I saw the premiere of Dutch director Floris Visser’s production of Puccini’s La bohème at Glyndebourne during the 2022 Summer Season. An opera I know and love, Visser’s ...

Exubarent theatricality makes for a dazzling spectacle that threatens to swamp quiet, fragile emotions at the heart of ...