Hutton Honors College

An Evening at the Opera: La Bohème—with a pre-performance talk by music critic Peter Jacobi.

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The IU Opera Theater season opens with an audience favorite. La Bohème tells the bittersweet stories of young artists, writers, friends, and lovers in the Paris of the 1830s. Adapted from Henri Murger's La Vie de la Bohème (Scenes from Bohemian Life), which also inspired the musical Rent and the movie Moulin Rouge, the opera was composed by Giacomo Puccini, whose extraordinarily beautiful music captures the gaiety of Bohemian café life, as well as the excitement, jealousy, and sadness passionate love can bring.

Peter Jacobi, music critic and columnist for The (Bloomington) Herald-Times, has written for The New York Times, the Chicago Daily News, Opera, Symphony, and a wide range of other publications. He is a professor emeritus in the IU School of Journalism and a former chair of the Indiana Arts Commission.

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