La Boheme Reviews

Indulge Magazine- Highly Recommended

"...Puccini’s La Bohème remains one of opera’s most devastating sleights of hand: an ostensibly simple tale of young artists in 1830s Paris that, upon each revival, reveals how intimately it understands hunger—artistic, romantic, and existential. The story persists because the emotional architecture is eternal: Rodolfo, a poet with more passion than francs, meets the fragile seamstress Mimì by the glow of a dying candle; their love blooms, falters, and finally succumbs to the brutal arithmetic of poverty. Around them, Marcello, Musetta, Schaunard, and Colline parry squalor with wit, bravado, and the stubborn insistence that joy is still possible. Puccini’s genius lies in his precision—laughter echoes against thin walls of hardship, and tenderness survives only because it must."