Dan Potra’s designs place the action and characters squarely in the time period.
#La boheme opera sydney series#
So important is 1986 to the rise of modern social consciousness and the emergence of a different kind of creativity, that the Art Gallery of NSW is curating a cinema series (Cinema ’68) from “a year that shook the world”. All will be well as the friends and lovers finagle their way out of paying the bill and disappear into the snowy night of interval.ĭirector Andy Morton’s LA BOHEME is set firmly in a time and place not far from our own, I remember the news footage well. Marcello is still put out with former lover, Musetta who is putting on quite a flirty show to re-attract his attention but Mimi sees there is still love between them. Darkness, and a supposedly lost key, inflames acquaintance and Mimi will accompany him to the café where the second loving pair are rekindling a fire. Rodolfo stays behind to write an ending when his peace is interrupted by Mimi looking for a light for her candle. There’s another win for the friends over their landlord and a plan to eat out in the Latin Quarter. Colline, the philosopher, joins them joylessly having been unable to sell some books but remedy arrives in the form of Schaunard, a musician who has just scored big with a dodgy gig involving a dead parrot. They decide to burn Rodolfo’s play manuscript which gives but scant warmth. With fire and snow, Handa Opera on the Harbour passionately immerses us in this evocatively created Paris of Discontent.įriends Marcello and Rodolfo, creative spirits, painter and poet, are gathered in a garret in Paris bemoaning the coldness of their environment and the dead fire in front of them. Set in France during the student riots of 1968, the stormy relationships of the two pairs of lovers are backgrounded by grassroots rebellion and oppressive crackdowns, all in a freezing winter of global unrest. Cool for the audience and lots of ‘cool daddy cool’ on the stage, we were treated to a new Opera Australia production of Giacomo Puccini‘s LA BOHEME. After days of torrential rain the clouds parted last night to make way for a love story on, and to, Sydney Harbour.
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