Another Riches to Rags Success Story ; Opera La Boheme Covent Garden . . . .

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EVERY couple of years the Royal Opera's 1974 staging of La Boheme hoves into view like the last tea clipper on the high seas grand, stately, fussy, elaborate but still boasting an astonishing power to move. This is its 21st revival.

With minutely detailed designs by the late Julia Trevelyan Oman, John Copley's production inhabits a world in which garrets were garrets not penthouses and poverty was the direct cause of hunger, disease and, for the coughing Mimi, death. The irony of this ultra- faithful staging is that to create Puccini's Bohemian world of impecunious pleasure and pain, a ton of money must be spent.

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Another Riches to Rags Success Story ; Opera La Boheme Covent Garden . . . .

The stage is stuffed with low-life props and a cast of more than 100 all kitted out in co...

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