Puccini won that battle.Ĭondescension from some music critics who find his music “insufficiently sophisticated”missed the part that Puccini’s mounting melodies, great sense of theater and lush orchestrations transformed the art of opera and positioned it as a gateway for the story driven plots and musical sensibilities of Broadway shows to come. The short stories by Henri Murger (“Scènes de la vie de bohème”) depicting young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s, simultaneously inspired both Ruggero Leoncavallo ("Pagliacci") and Puccini to write a new opera based on Murger’s material.
Also, one must not underestimate the level of creativity achieved resulting from a competitive battle for the same prize. One can only imagine Puccini sharing a little piece of himself to facilitate the writing of such glorious music. "Bohème" hits all the notes: a composer who writes what he knows (poverty), falling in love in the most innocent of circumstances and music inspired at the highest level of one’s creativity. Jones as Musetta with Tony Dillon as Alcindoro. Nor seeing and hearing "La bohème" for the fifth time. There is certainly no advantage in turning up your nose at another listen to The Beatles’s "White Album," watching "Casablanca" again or reading "Catcher in the Rye" once more. I sometimes hear that subtle “oh, not again” when a production of "La bohème" is coming to town, as if there is something unsophisticated about hearing one of the world’s most performed operas again. It was the opening production of Florida Grand Opera’s 78th Season. "La bohème" is the topper of that list.Ĭomposed by the peerless Giacomo Puccini, whose unmatched genius propelled his operas into the 20th century and whose oeuvre remains unmatched in modern times, "La bohème" once again filled the Adrienne Arsht Center Ziff Ballet Opera House on Friday, Nov. When real characters and situations (“verismo”) rather than gods or mythological beings or those of noble rank sing the grand songs while playing out a compelling story packaged with music by an operatic composer just hitting his stride, you have hit the cover off the ball and an opera destined to play over and over again. Who doesn’t remember their love at first sight? The simple circumstances, the lack of pretense, the unintendedness of it all? And the hard fall. debut, tenor Alesandro Scotto di Luzio as Rodolfo with Adrienn Miksch as Mimi in Florida Grand Opera's "La boheme." Photographer: Chris Kakol
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