Classical music review: La Bohème goes big

Vancouver Opera’s latest staging of Puccini’s La Bohème — the 12th in the company’s history — is a handsome production of a perennial favourite. It’s also a sequel of sorts to last season’s lavish Turnadot by the direction/design team of Renaud Doucet and Andre Barbé, who have updated the story of love in the garrets of Paris to a vaguely 1920s mise en scène.
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