Bohemians then and now:
Jonathan Larson based the book of the musical Rent on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. Larson changed the setting of the story from 1830s Paris to New York City’s Lower East Side in the 1990s, substituted AIDS for tuberculosis and introduced homosexual characters into Puccini’s love triangles, but many details from the opera remain intact…
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