ARTS: OPERA - When Bohemia returns to Paris LA BOHEME GRAND THEATRE LEEDS

The Independent - London | September 29, 2001| | Copyright

FANCY SEEING La Boheme this autumn? It shouldn't be too hard. Scottish Opera Go Round currently offers 21 performances. There are 15 at the London Coliseum. Welsh National Opera supplies a further nine, and Opera North 10, with another 17 in the new year. And this is the opera ON has performed more than any other over the past 23 years. A bit too much of a good thing, I think.

But such complaints about playing safe fade away when you are confronted with a revival of this quality. Phyllida Lloyd's 1993 production has been entrusted to another very talented producer, Daniel Slater, and the ...

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