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Article: Updated 'Boheme' keeps most of the good parts.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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Byline: Tim Smith
Sep. 20--Washington National Opera's intriguing production of Puccini's La Boheme requires, to borrow a recently reverberating phrase, "a willing suspension of disbelief."
Sure, all operas demand such suspension, to one degree or another, but this fresh take on the well-loved tale of Parisian bohemians moves the action so forcefully from the 19th century to our day and mindset that the result is almost a whole new work.
Just how reverent you feel about the original may determine how open you'll be to this experience -- and, judging by the intermission chit-chat Monday night at the Kennedy Center, Boheme is provoking the kind ...