Yes, the lush romantic orchestration has been reduced, beautifully so, by Francis Griffin, but the OH orchestra plays Puccini's haunting melodies like the Philharmonic. Boheme hasn't been resuscitated or even resurrected, it's been revivified. Under maestro Eiki Isomura, with a superlative age-appropriate cast who seem to be actual roommates and lovers, this “chestnut” has been nipped and tucked, botoxed, and rejuvenated. This eternally youthful work, with its high-spirits tempered by that wrenching finale by librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica (who would go on to pen Butterfly and Tosca), is always classified as the world's most popular opera, but it now looks – and sounds – as if freshly composed. playing only two more performances at Opera in the Heights. Right now, the youngest show in town is its oldest: Giacomo Puccini's 1896 La Boheme.
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