La bohème

...the sheer visceral thrill of singing and of feeling an audience respond. He recalled his recent performances in Puccini's "La Boheme" in Vienna, his last engagement before flying to New York for "Hoffmann." "People were crying...

In this article: Joseph Calleja, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Enrico Caruso, Jacques Offenbach, Malta, and The Tales of Hoffmann

...starving artists struggling to eat and pay a year's back rent. The musical's poignant story is based very loosely on Puccini's opera "La Boheme." The reality of that story and the angular melodies of the show's rock tunes are as powerful a...

In this article: Rent, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, E mail, Journal Sentinel, AIDS, H.I.V., and Jonathan Larson

...whether tossing off a frivolity like "Il Bacio" by Arditi or tugging at our hearts as the consumptive heroines from Puccini's "La Boheme" and Verdi's "La Traviata." Ditto mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who offered melting high notes in...

In this article: Macbeth, La traviata, James Morris, Anna Netrebko, Samuel Ramey, and Matthew Polenzani

...(at the Met) demanded that, in the seventh month of her third pregnancy, she appear as Musetta (with Renata Tebaldi as Mimi) in La Boheme. "I almost had my baby on stage," she recalled with horror. In 1964, after six seasons in New York,...

In this article: Elisabeth Soderstrom, Der Rosenkavalier, Richard Strauss, Birgit Nilsson, The Queen of Spades, Elsie Morison, Kathleen Battle, and Charles Mackerras

...portraying Marguerite in Charles Gounod's "Faust," Adina in Gaetano Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" and Musetta in Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme." She also performed three separate roles in Richard Strauss's 1911 comic opera "Der...

In this article: Elisabeth Soderstrom, Leos Janacek, Katya Kabanova, Richard Strauss, Metropolitan Opera, Stockholm, Buoyancy, and New York Herald Tribune

...had local premieres. "In the last 11 months, I made yet another film, a short film in the south of the Ethiopia (based on Puccini's La Boheme). I also staged an opera with musical director Lorin Maazel in Spain (Wagner's Parsifal), and I...

In this article: Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, New Orleans, Parsifal, Lorin Maazel, and Abel Ferrara

RENT, the scorchingly hot modern take on Puccini's La Boheme, comes to The Civic, THE EDGE in Auckland for a strictly limited season starting April 22. This Pulitzer and 10-times Tony Award-winning musical described by Rolling Stone...

In this article: Rent, Auckland, The Edge, Rolling Stone magazine, and New York City

...be performed March 11. Lalov is planning "a minimum of three productions next season," including Verdi's "La Traviata" and Puccini's "La Boheme." As for this weekend, "I always cross my fingers," Lalov says. "But I've put on 4,000 shows...

In this article: Baltimore, Grace Hartigan, The Barber of Seville, Teatro Lirico, Don Pasquale, and Washington

'Mon Oncle Antoine' plays at Pratt's Film Talk series "La Boheme," MGM's 1926 silent epic of selfless love in the pursuit of high-quality playwriting, will be shown Sunday afternoon at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, with organ accompaniment...

In this article: Mon oncle Antoine, Claude Jutra, Lillian Gish, Jell-O, and Suicide