Baz is Broadway Bound: 'La Boheme' with a po-mo vibe: the 'Moulin Rouge' director brings new life to a grand old opera.

From: Newsweek | Date: November 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: John Horn

This is not your parents' "La Boheme." The music filling the San Francisco rehearsal studio is unmistakably Giacomo Puccini's. But the four singers are so young they'd be carded if they tried to order a beer, and the striking woman singing Musetta displays a bare, toned midriff. And the director, Baz Luhrmann, is doing his best to make sure they don't comport themselves like opera singers. As they run through the third act's signature quartet, he jots away on the tiny note cards he wears around his neck like dog tags. The tenor and the baritone, he sees, are ...

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