{"id":1698,"date":"2013-01-13T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2014-09-05T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T21:54:12","slug":"a-boheme-that-will-run-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/01\/13\/a-boheme-that-will-run-and-run\/","title":{"rendered":"a Boh\u00e8me that will run and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to see Welsh National Opera&#8217;s <i>La boh\u00e8me<\/i> in Bristol, the first time I&#8217;d had this standard operatic experience.  The production was new this year, and I predict that it will be returning more than once, as it suits the opera admirably.  I was particularly impressed with the use of projections at the back of the stage to suggest changing times of day and seasons.  This and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/04\/25\/an-unrepresentative-audience-for-berlioz\/\"><i>Beatrice and Benedict<\/i><\/a> suggest that WNO has some particularly adept lighting technicians, but here the lighting didn&#8217;t steal the show.<\/p>\n<p>As to the performances, I don&#8217;t really have very much to say except well done all round.  There seem to be a new crop of singers coming through in WNO productions so I hope I&#8217;ll be hearing from them again; likewise the conductor, Andrew Greenwood.<\/p>\n<p>Reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/opera\/9557510\/La-Boheme-WNO-Cardiff-Seven-magazine-review.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/opera\/9557510\/La-Boheme-WNO-Cardiff-Seven-magazine-review.html', 'Telegraph');\">Telegraph<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/classical\/reviews\/la-bohme-wales-millennium-centre-cardiffa-night-at-the-chinese-opera-peacock-theatre-london-8142183.html?origin=internalSearch\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/classical\/reviews\/la-bohme-wales-millennium-centre-cardiffa-night-at-the-chinese-opera-peacock-theatre-london-8142183.html?origin=internalSearch', 'Independent');\">Independent<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to see Welsh National Opera&#8217;s La boh\u00e8me in Bristol, the first time I&#8217;d had this standard operatic experience. The production was new this year, and I predict that it will be returning more than once, as it suits &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/01\/13\/a-boheme-that-will-run-and-run\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[530,190,241,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}