Opera gets the TikTok treatment with short version of La boheme

has undoubtedly changed the way Gen Z consume content, encouraging the return of subtitles in films and TV and slicing up films - but now even the world of opera has been affected by the generation's preference for everything in bite-size.

Giacomo Puccini’s operatic masterpiece La bohème, a four-act production which follows a bohemian seamstress living in Paris with her artist friends, will debut a shorter version onstage in Perugia, , next month - in a bid to appeal to the TikTok generation.

The shortened version of Puccini's opera slashes the run time from two hours and forty minutes to just ninety minutes, reports.

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