Westminster Opera Studio, selections from La Boheme

In the mid 1800's, author Henri Murger wrote a collection of loosely-related short stories that he published as Scene de la vie de Boheme. Literary enthusiasts were fond of the book but it didn't become truly popular until a local playwright was asked to adapt part of the text for the stage. Fifty years later, Giacomo Puccini's operatic version of the story premiered in Turin at the Teatro Regio as: La Boheme.

Jutta Puchammer-Sedillot, viola

Violist Jutta Puchammer-Sedillot plays some gorgeous viola music and shares her secret reason why violists get along better than violinists!