Suzanne Martinucci reflects on the world that La Bohème creates.

“I love the way the opera begins. We know that the opening music comes from the Capriccio Sinfonico, a piece Puccini composed years earlier while he was a student. Here it brings to mind someone energetically and determinedly – perhaps stamping the cold out of his feet – marching up all those stairs to the garret where Rodolfo and Marcello are working, sweeping all of us along…”