Freddie De Tommaso and Juliana Grigoryan star in Puccini’s La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera La Bohème returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening.

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 ...

PucciniAs the nights draw in, it seems highly appropriate to return to Glyndebourne for the start of its Autumn season and ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s production includes a lot of real food, even Oreos and bagels. And it’s Rex Marquez’s job to get it ...

When most people think of “La Bohème,” I’d wager sadness and death come to mind. But Opera Orlando has imbued Puccini’s 1895 opera with laughter and life. Amazing what a ...

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 ...