Presented in the Detroit Opera House in a co-production with Boston Lyric Opera and Spoleto Festival USA, this bold, unconventional take on Puccini’s opus is itself a bohemian work of art: experimental, nonconforming, original. Our favorite starving young artists and lovers survive to hope another day. From finish to start, from death to the promise of new love, from loneliness and despair to the joy of friendships, wine, and song, this reversal presents the characters and arias we love in a refreshing, new vision of the story. How do we go from tragedy to hope? From death to life? From loneliness to love? In this visionary treatment of Puccini’s opus La bohème, Detroit Opera does just that - by presenting the opera in reverse order. ‘I liked the fact that I had to cry at the beginning and not at the end,’ said one audience member. "And a big part of my role in this production is to say, 'Just because you've always done it this way doesn't mean that there aren't other ways to do it or other ways to explore.It’s in their season. "We had this really interesting dialogue that's happened over the last few weeks of people that say, 'Well, we've always done it this way,'" said Sharon. He said he especially wanted to rethink Mimi's character given that she's always depicted as a fragile, suffering, "wilting flower." Legendary opera singer George Shirley, meanwhile, plays a narrator of sorts, a new role, piecing the story together. Still, Sharon said it's been a process working with the entire cast to think about "La bohème" differently. "When you think of the role of the pandemic and this sense of darkness and this pause we've been going through, once we can get out of it, we have that sense of hope and aspiration and ending in love as opposed to death," said Brown. If anything, Brown said telling "La bohème" in reverse and ending with hope and optimism is especially timely right now as the world hopefully emerges from COVID-19. The beloved tunes, that sense of emotional connection, remains in tact." "But I wanted to be assured that the music does not change. I thought it was brave to take on such a task," said Brown. He said if anything, the idea "wasn't totally out of the box" partly because he knew the work Sharon for which he was known. Wayne Brown, Detroit Opera's president and CEO, instead was open to the idea. "The nice ones would say 'Great idea, but not for us.'"
"Every door was closed in my face on that one," Sharon said. "I remember going home and ordering the opera in that opera just to hear what it was like and I was totally transfixed by the idea."īut a lot of theaters didn't share Sharon's enthusiasm. Over the years, he said he suggested doing ""La bohème" in different places but that he only wanted to do it in reverse order. "Ever since he said that it stuck with me," said Sharon.
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