After all, the hipsters of today are basically equivalent to the bohemians of yesterday. His transformation of La Bohème into an opera about hipsters couldn’t be more apt. And it is obvious from the marketing and supertitle translations that Shaw is aiming to draw in Highland Park hipsters.
When introducing the show on opening night, director and designer Josh Shaw said that it certainly helped having the production in his own neighborhood. Pacific Opera Project put together La Bohème in less than a week, which is one reason why it’s being described as a pop-up opera (it also happens to be running for one weekend only).
While standard row seats are available in the back for $20, it is definitely worth shelling out $60 or $100 for a table for two or four. Instead, dozens of tables have been erected in front of the stage set with a bottle of red or white wine and a platter of cheese, charcuterie, and other nibbles. Its latest production, a hipster-inspired version of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, has almost a cabaret feel, as there are no fixed rows of seats. Pacific Opera Project takes this typically elite art form and strips it down to its barest essentials: stunning music and simple, enjoyable stories.
The upstart company’s edgy productions explode popular perceptions of what opera is and how it should be performed. LA Opera should take note of Pacific Opera Project.
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