Edinburgh opera review: La bohème at the Festival Theatre

To realise so many characters in music and movement with such tenderness and clarity is ensemble work of the highest order

By Anna Picard

August 28 2017, 12:01am,

FIVE STARS
Step out of the theatre and you can see them on the pavements: laughing, talking and kissing; falling in love and running out of money. Animated and individuated by Puccini in 1896, Henri Murger’s composite characters from the Quartier Latin of 1840s Paris have never grown old. In Àlex Ollé’s production of La bohème, brought to the Edinburgh Festival by Teatro Regio Torino and the conductor Gianandrea Noseda, only the period and the location have changed