DARK SECRETS: Rodolfo - The Real Truth

La Bohème review – boutique modern-day Puccini travels to gentrified Hackney in good voice

New spin on the venerable opera survives the translation from 1890s Paris to 21st-century London well, with only a few details damaged in the crossing

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3

The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review

Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska is an unforgettable Mimì in Richard Jones’s ever sumptuous Puccini production. And mischief rules at this year’s LCMF

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2024

La bohème review – ENO celebrate Puccini centenary with compelling new talent

Jonathan Miller’s 2009 staging opens English National Opera’s season with Nadine Benjamin an affecting Mimì and conductor Clelia Cafiero, making an impressive UK debut

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024

'La Bohème' in space returns to Paris, 6 years after uproar

Claus Guth's controversial staging of Puccini's “La Bohème,” set on a spaceship and a planet's barren surface, returns to the Paris Opéra six years after an audience uproar at its premiere caused conductor Gustavo Dudamel to momentarily stop the show

The Independent UK · May 2, 2023

The week in classical: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; The Excursions of Mr Brouček – review

Puccini’s story of doomed love is burdened by an oppressive set and a new character, but elsewhere his Japanese tragedy is brilliantly performed. Meanwhile Janáček’s farcical landlord is a hoot

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2022

La Bohème at Glyndebourne review: Bracing and deeply affecting staging of a work that still speaks to our age

Floris Visser’s new production of Puccini’s tragic love story features some persuasive performances from its two leads

Evening Standard · Jun 13, 2022

La Bohème review – Death stalks Puccini’s lovers in a riveting Glyndebourne show

Floris Visser’s new production puts a dark spin on this story of doomed lovers – which only heightens the life-affirming vibrancy of the music

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2022

Goa polls: Rodolfo will keep ‘fighter’ mom’s promises, says Priyanka Gandhi

PANAJI: Former St Cruz MLA Victoria Fernandes, who represented the constituency for several terms, was an embodiment of ‘ladki hoon, laad sakti hoon’, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi said while campaigning for Victoria’s son, Rodolfo, on Monday.

The Times of India · Feb 7, 2022