Music of the Week
Well, you probably wouldn’t imagine this would ever happen but this week we are playing some good ol’ opera in class! This weeks music is from the opera, La Boheme. Now, I am not really an opera buff. Opera is not a genre I tend to gravitate to but this opera has a special place in my heart. When I was younger, our boy’s choir was asked to participate in the Edmonton Opera’s production of La Boheme as they needed children for the crowd scene in the second act. It was great fun singing, running around the stage in a costume and acting. We even got paid to do it! Since then, La Boheme has always brought back fond memories and the music is actually very beautiful. I told the children today that opera was the popular entertainment of the time. It would have had the same popularity as going to the movies does today.
This clip features the famous Luciano Pavarotti in the lead role: