LOC's "La Boheme' reaffirms the opera's enduring allure

From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA | Date: October 5, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Lancaster Opera Company did not hope to reinvent the wheel Thursday when it presented a "La Boheme" set in an updated time frame, moving its characters forward to the eve of World War I.

Director John Bowen explains in program notes that it's an era when "the entire world's loves, dreams, hopes and, ultimately, innocence were irrevocably swept into the realm of distant irretrievable memories."

To Bowen, this is the central theme of the opera: that of innocence, the loves and dreams won and lost in youth.

The LOC performances, which continue through today at the Fulton Opera House, reflect his ...

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