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 ===== La Boheme Apr 5 2014 ===== ===== La Boheme Apr 5 2014 =====
 +We snuck away from Joe and Christa's and found the Century Theater in a Shopping mall at the corner of Beach and 405.  The theater was very full, we parked in the parking structure.  The performance was a surprise with a very strong tenor and a beautiful young opera babe in the name of Kristine Opolais who was a last minute sub for the ailing soprano who had the flu.  She wss a more than adequate replacement as a beautiful blonde Latvian singer.  Easy on the eyes and easy on the ears.
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 ==== From ‘Butterfly’ to ‘Bohème,’ in a Flash ==== ==== From ‘Butterfly’ to ‘Bohème,’ in a Flash ====
 Last-minute cast changes at an opera house are always full of drama, but one that enabled Saturday afternoon’s performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Metropolitan Opera is likely to go down in the annals of day-of-the-performance substitutions. Last-minute cast changes at an opera house are always full of drama, but one that enabled Saturday afternoon’s performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Metropolitan Opera is likely to go down in the annals of day-of-the-performance substitutions.
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 Generally, there are few things operagoers dread more than getting a slip of paper in their programs announcing unplanned cast changes, but this year the Met has managed to make some of those occasions memorable. Last month, when the baritone Thomas Hampson, citing illness, pulled out of the opening night of Berg’s “Wozzeck,” the Met replaced him with Matthias Goerne, who had just sung the role at Carnegie Hall with the Vienna State Opera. Generally, there are few things operagoers dread more than getting a slip of paper in their programs announcing unplanned cast changes, but this year the Met has managed to make some of those occasions memorable. Last month, when the baritone Thomas Hampson, citing illness, pulled out of the opening night of Berg’s “Wozzeck,” the Met replaced him with Matthias Goerne, who had just sung the role at Carnegie Hall with the Vienna State Opera.
  
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 Kristine Opolais with Giuseppe Filianoti in The Metropolitan Opera's production of "La Rondine" in 2013.  Kristine Opolais with Giuseppe Filianoti in The Metropolitan Opera's production of "La Rondine" in 2013. 
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