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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Seasons of Love1846 - Henry Murger publishes a series of character sketches romanticizing the Bohemian life, in Italian literary magazine "Corsaire".
1849 - Murger and Theodore Barriere co-author a stage play: "La Vie de Boheme", based on these sketches. The play was a sensation.
1851 - Murger compiles these sketches into a novel: "Scenes de la Vie de Boheme".
1896 - Debut of Puccini's opera: "La Boheme". Although the opera was inspried by the novel, for copyright reasons he had to claim that his inspiration was the play. "La Boheme" has some of the world's most beloved opera music.
1993 - Baz Lurhman directs an Australian Opera production of "La Boheme". His version sets the opera in 1957 Paris. This performance was subsequently recorded and sold in DVD format. Reviews laud it as one of the best productions of "La Boheme".
1996 - Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent" premiered on the 100th aniversary of "La Boheme" - by fluke! This musical updating of Puccini's opera became one of the biggest things on Broadway.
1997 - Len buys a 2-CD original cast recording of "Rent" at a discount and tells Amy about it while at VJC.
2001 - SRT stages "Rent" at the Kallang Theatre. The role of Benny is played by Brendon Fernandez, VJC alumnus. Among the audience was Angeline, Yanshan and Amy. All of them were so in love with the show that "Rent" songs were on heavy rotation on their laptop mp3 playlist. Amy blasts Len's CD daily on the Geog Soc hi-fi, until Tjin began to complain.
2002 - Baz brings his "La Boheme" to Broadway, NY. Len watches one of the very first performances.
2004 - Amy finally finds the original cast recording of "Rent" for sale in Singapore. Len buys it for her birthday present.
2005 - The 1993 version of "La Boheme" is screened as part of the Baz Luhrmann Retrospective. Inspired by the performance, Amy starts to play her "Rent" CD non-stop and starts her research.
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