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Always Look Closer: Inside La Bohème with Three Sopranos
We think we know Mimì and Musetta.
One is tender and quiet. The other enters a room determined to be seen. Ingénue and Vixen—easy.
Except these women have never been quite that simple.
In this season-opening collaboration with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Amity sits down with sopranos Gabriella Reyes (Mimì) and Cadie J. Bryan (Musetta) for a conversation about the women at the heart of Puccini's La Bohème—and what happens when we look beyond the archetypes.
They talk about agency and female friendship, the tiny details Puccini leaves in the score, the vulnerability beneath Musetta's fire, and…
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