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La Boheme

Giacomo Puccini author Robin Norton-Hale editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:27th Jul '10

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Winner of 2011 What’s On Stage award for Best Off-West End Production and Olivier Award for Best Opera Production 2011.

A classic tale retold for 21st century London. A tale of love and tragedy, indulgence and excess. Having wowed audiences at Kilburn’s Cock Tavern in a record-breaking, sell-out six-month run, Soho Theatre takes on opera for the very first time as Puccini’s La Bohème is retold for contemporary Soho with a talented, classically trained young cast.

"A madly brilliant reimaging" * * * *—The Times "This is Puccini without a safety net and it works" * * * *—Evening Standard "Transfers effortlessly from 1830s Paris to contemporary London... in Norton-Hale's canny translation, the words and notes both make their mark … this is about as real as verismo gets.”—The Guardian "A riotous coup de théâtre that fizzes with fun and fabulousness... A Bohème quite unlike any other - * * * *"—The Metro "Robin Norton-Hale’s sharp, demotic translation... seems set fair to bring Puccini’s indestructible masterpiece to many more punters, opera fans and neophytes alike...charted with an immediacy that one does not always get in a larger house...intensely affecting—* * * *"—Evening Standard
"A madly brilliant reimaging" * * * *—The Times "This is Puccini without a safety net and it works" * * * *—Evening Standard "Transfers effortlessly from 1830s Paris to contemporary London... in Norton-Hale's canny translation, the words and notes both make their mark … this is about as real as verismo gets.”—The Guardian "A riotous coup de théâtre that fizzes with fun and fabulousness... A Bohème quite unlike any other - * * * *"—The Metro "Robin Norton-Hale’s sharp, demotic translation... seems set fair to bring Puccini’s indestructible masterpiece to many more punters, opera fans and neophytes alike...charted with an immediacy that one does not always get in a larger house...intensely affecting—* * * *"—Evening Standard

ISBN: 9781849430838

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 113g

86 pages