Production maximizes power of Puccini's music and drama — filling out characters, heightening emotions, enhancing humor and enlivening crowd scenes.

Director Melanie Bacaling’s staging certainly has its heart more in April than March, especially given the presence of a swath of Uniting Voices of Chicago singers joining the Lyric Opera

If you haven’t been to an opera in a while, or ever, by all means get yourself to the Dallas Opera’s La bohème. Stirring both visually and aurally, Friday night’s sold-out opening at the Winspear Opera House prompts a major “buy” recommendation for subsequent performances.

Giacomo Puccini’s heartbreaking La Boheme is playing for 10 performances at the Lyric. Bring a handkerchief. Director Melanie Bacaling, in her Lyric directorial debut, has given