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Yet for all that is eternal in this scene of artistic endeavor, there are clues that make it clear that this is the 21st century. The bohemian life it celebrates is also a perennial: the passions, the jealousies, the overwrought poems, the overdue bills. Inside the studio, a dozen singers sit in a circle - reading sections of libretto, vocalizing phrases, laughing and chatting as they seek to uncover the deeper meanings in Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme.” The drizzly haze at the windows might well be a time warp, for they’re probing text and music in much the same way as have countless sopranos, tenors, baritones and basses before them for more than 100 years, since the opera premiered in 1896. Seen from inside, the misty downfall becomes a diaphanous shroud, blurring the Saturday afternoon scene unfolding below into the timeless surrealism of a French film. In Louis-Henri Murger’s Scenes of Bohemian Life,Īgentle summer rain washes the streets of downtown Manhattan, glancing off the windows of a fourth-floor rehearsal studio in a corner building on lower Broadway. TheFreeDictionary.‘O my youth! It is you that is being buried.’ Infoplease ( Random House Unabridged Dictionary) Reverso Online Dictionary ( Collins French-English Dictionary) Oxford Dictionaries ( Oxford American Dictionary) Oxford Dictionaries ( Oxford Dictionary of English) Search Chambers - ( Chambers 21st Century Dictionary)

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