The Metropolitan Opera presents Puccini's La Boheme live in HD in move theaters worldwide, Saturday April 5, at 1 p.m.
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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was killer handsome, a world class womanizer, a lover of good cigars, fast cars and women, women, women. Women in the flesh and women on the page.
Puccini was known to fall in love with the heroines of his operas: Madama Buterfly, Liu, Tosca, Manon Lescaut. Perhaps he loved Mimi in La boheme most of all.
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La Boheme is the world's most loved opera. That's a generalization but I don't care. Like Bizet's Carmen, La boheme can't be ruined.
The randiness and the despair of Puccini's music always carry he story: impoverished students, untreatable illness, love, sex, parties, more love and a gentle death.
If you've ever been a poor student, if you've ever loved and lost this opera is for you. You don't even have to sing.
Get to the Met in HD, have a seat, have popcorn and enjoy a good cry after this most poignant of operas.
No, I'm not crying. Darned allergies. Oh by the way, all of our Opera Abbreviated's are available on iTunes. With more to come.
