Review: La Bohème at LA Opera
May 11, 2012 | By David Maurer | Category: Classical Music and OperaWith La Bohème, Puccini sought to write an opera in the fashionable verismo style that took as its subject everyday life and attempted to treat it in a realistic manner. While his opera dates from the mid-1890s, his source material was a series of stories written in the 1840s by Henri Murger, which depicted real [...]



