La Boheme

Last Saturday we went to the Lincoln Center to see La Boheme. This was my first experience with an opera. The Lincoln Center was very cool and I liked the inside of the theater we were in.

There were subtitles on all the seats which was actually pretty cool as I thought that I would just have to make do with the opera being in Italian. As for the actual opera, it was a very impressive performance. All the actors were amazing and I think the way all the set changes were done was very cool. With this being said, I just do not enjoy an opera as a form of telling a story. Maybe this would change if I found the right opera, as this opinion is based off of just La Boheme, but I think I prefer other ways to tell a story to something like an opera. The same goes for the movie Rent. It’s pleasantly surprising and I enjoyed it more than I thought. It was also cool to see parallels between the opera and movie. However the musical aspect of it just doesn’t do it for me. I just prefer other ways to tell a story. I did like however some of the small changes in the story. In the La Boheme Rodolfo is the one driving the interaction between him and Mimi, however in Rent Mimi is the one that is more assertive. It is also interesting how in La Boheme Mimi is the only one suffering and eventually succumbing to consumption. However in Rent, many of the main and supporting characters are effected by aids which gives a different feel to the story and goes insight to the aids epidemic that occurred.