A Detroit opera house is staging Puccini's classic boheme backwards to give it a more uplifting ending, with the fourth act first in what the director says is a more fitting and hopeful version for the post-pandemic era.The opera, written in the early 1890s, tells the story of a group of artists, musicians and writers living in poverty in 1830s Paris.Rodolfo, a poet, meets his neighbor Mimi, a seamstress, on Eve and the pair fall in love. But Mimi's tuberculosis, worsened by her wretched living conditions, causes her tragic death at the end of the opera.
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