Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Puccini, meet Handy. That seemingly unlikely introduction of disparate musical giants will occur this weekend, when a new Opera ...

Long before Jonathan Larson adapted the classic Giacomo Puccini opera “La Boheme” into his groundbreaking rock opera “Rent” (timed to “Boheme”‘s 100th anniversary), the soaring, emotional Italian ...

The world’s most popular and most performed opera is Giacomo Puccini’s tragic tear-jerker La bohéme (1896). Ever since its world premiere at Turin’s Teatro Regio, conducted by soon-to-be legendary ...

Opera Colorado is staging a production of La bohème, one of opera's most iconic stories of love and loss. In this production, there is a real life love story playing out behind the scenes. La bohème ...

Have you ever wondered where the story of “Rent” or “Love Story” came from? Puccini’s classic opera has inspired generations with its true-to-life story of Rodolfo and Mimi — star-crossed lovers. With ...

It is no wonder this source material thrived in Jonathan Larson’s adaptation, Rent, seeing as the story of destitute artists fighting to survive under the heels of the wealthy continues to resound ...

Stage Director Nicole Kinley-Miller in rehersal with the cast of La Boheme. Credit: Photo by Eiki Isomura With a cast full of singers making their role debuts, a children’s chorus accompanying the ...

Last weekend, two men stood in their impoverished quarters. One of them burnt a manuscript while the other stood closer, their desperate attempt at keeping warm. It was Friday in Madison, but on stage ...

LA Opera Community Educator Steve Kohn brings to light this most romantic of all operas via a multimedia talk. La Bohème is set against the bustling cafés and hidden corners of 19th-century Paris, and ...

Stephen Costello as Rodolfo and Eleonora Buratto as Mimì in the New York show of “La Bohème.” (Curtis Brown/Metropolitan Opera) One hundred and twenty-seven years after its premiere at the Teatro ...

A spectacular evening of stellar performances and good cheer greeted opening night of Opera Santa Barbara’s 2011-12 season of La Bohème at the Granada Theatre. An early season fall rain couldn’t ...

When the curtain opened at the Metropolitan Opera last night, a lady behind me said, “I love this.” When it opened on Act II, a man said, “Wow.” They were so right. Onstage was La bohème, in the ...