Review: Why Herbert Ross' much loved 1993 'La Bohème' has become a perennial at L.A. Opera

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In 2012, when Los Angeles Opera had once again revived a 19-year-old production of “La Bohème” — fancied for its Toulouse-Lautrec-inspired sets, cinematic pizzazz and echt-romanticized filmic story telling by Hollywood director Herbert Ross — I wrote that the beloved production has earned its keep, but no production lasts forever. It lasted. There it was, three years later, back at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Some Angelenos had other ideas. Gustavo Dudamel conducted a futurist new production of “La Bohème” in Paris that took place in outer space. Disruptive opera director Yuval Sharon, founder of The Industry, came up with the arresting idea of presenting “La Bohème” backwards,