Under the flickering neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love and a young man is asked to sacrifice his gender in exchange for love and a better life…
Under the flickering neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love and a young man is asked to sacrifice his gender in exchange for love and a better life…
This is an utterly charming performance, with some of Kents signature touches, a stage filling bit of spectacle, live orchestra, La Boehme is a romantically sad story, ending in tragedy but with some delightful set pieces celebrating love hope and beauty
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This was thoroughly modern Mandy driven Mimi and it worked for me and for the rest of the audience, the full house loved it, being very generous with their cheers and applause.
The ENO’s revival of this unfamiliar Puccini opera has successfully shown us the honest human story in this adolescent melodrama without trashing its very sweet and delicate heart. it can be so easy to mock, so difficult to produce free of irony, but the story is deftly handled here.
