Mel AKA Maureen
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Rent Or La Boheme?So, here we go, it's most likely been done before, but I want to know...
Rent or La Boheme?
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The REAL Ciaron
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Is this a joke? Rent is not even in the same league as La Boheme.
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Mel AKA Maureen
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Rent was biased off it, yes they are different genres, but they have the same basic plot lines and characters.
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The REAL Ciaron
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| Mel AKA Maureen wrote: | | Rent was biased off it, yes they are different genres, but they have the same basic plot lines and characters. |
Have you ever seen the opera?
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Salome
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Its apples and oranges.
the mimi character in both is annoying. the main plot in both is rather dull.but musically Boheme is of course superior.
i enjoy both Boheme and Rent for their strengths....neither is the best of their genre however.
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Mel AKA Maureen
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| The REAL Ciaron wrote: | | Mel AKA Maureen wrote: | | Rent was biased off it, yes they are different genres, but they have the same basic plot lines and characters. |
Have you ever seen the opera? |
Parts of it, but not all of it, no.
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GlamorousGriz
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Rent butchers La Bohéme horribly. I adore La Bohéme too much to be able to truly enjoy Rent... I'm sorry, but that's just how I feel. GIving credit where it's due, I liked the movie and I do occasionally listen to bits and pieces of the OBC, but given the opportunity to see Rent on Broadway or La Bohéme, I'd see La Bohéme.
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One Song Glory
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Don't get me wrong, I love Rent as any Rent-head would, but La Boheme is the original and is better. There's something about the opera that just... I don't know. I've seen it a while ago and even know I didn't really understand what they were saying, it was still beautiful and moving....
I think I'll have to vote for both because I love them equally... but La Boheme is better.  Not saying Rent sucks, so I hope I don't come off in the wrong way.
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The Very Angry Woman
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Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème.
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belleboi80
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| Quote: | | Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème. |
Yes! One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I was dating this guy who is now singing opera in Austria right now (oh i miss him) and he was amazed because I told him I was not a fan of opera, so he took me to see this and i have been hooked ever since.
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EponineGiry
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This is like asking "West Side Story or Romeo and Juliet?" They're two different playing fields.
That being said, I can sit through watching either one, but I have to say that when listening to recordings, La Boheme becomes background music, while listening to Rent becomes what I am doing.
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Quique
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Rent or La Boheme? | belleboi80 wrote: | | Quote: | | Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème. |
Yes! One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I was dating this guy who is now singing opera in Austria right now (oh i miss him) and he was amazed because I told him I was not a fan of opera, so he took me to see this and i have been hooked ever since. |
I also had absolutely no interest whatsoever in opera when I saw this early last year at the Ahmanson Theatre. That certainly changed, heehee.
While I'm still not a huge fan of opera, it did open-up a whole new perspective of the artform. I have an opera obsessed older brother and basically grew-up hearing a lot of that and, of course, musical theatre. Opera had always appealed to me somewhat but never enough to cause me to actually listen to it at home, hehe. There is something distant and stoic about the way most are performed and being the corny sap that I am, I was more readily swept away by Broadway. My brother says I haven't given it a fair chance and he's probably right, which sort of already proved itself through my liking La Boheme enough to purchase the CD. I wish more operas we performed like this one was, though.
So, between Rent and La Boheme...the latter. Without question.
And NOT because, "it's the original from which Rent is based."
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JemiBoe1981
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I think I prefer La Boheme a smidgen more. I looove both, but the original is just so beautiful. RENT, too, is amazing, and only loses by like a seventy fifth of a point.
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Fontinau
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I picked "neither, they both suck" - but that isn't really right.
A better answer would be "neither, they both get way more attention than they deserve" - to the point where I can't watch/listen to either of them without feeling mildly annoyed.
As far as comparing the two goes, La Boheme obviously wins in aspects like the number of good melodies, the technical sophistication of the score, the intelligence of the lyrics, etc etc etc.
But there's also at least one aspect in which Rent beats La Boheme - sincerity.
By the time I saw Rent performed live, it had already devolved into the patronizing freak show it is today. But even then, and even watching the movie, and even moreso listening to the cast album, I can still get a lingering sense that Rent was originally the work of a writer who genuinely cared about and believed in his subject. Puccini never cared about or believed in is French bohemians, anymore than he cared about or believed in his gun-slingin cowboys in La Fanciulla del West, or his geishas in Madama Butterfly, or his Chinese courtiers in Turandot. They were just one more exotic gimmick for him to play around with.
To put it another way, I can be genuinely moved by something like the supporting cast testifying at the life support meeting, or Collins mourning Angel's death. I can't say the same for anything in La Boheme.
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dramaqueen220222
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I like Rent, really I do. But I love La Boheme, I've loved it for a long time, ever since I first saw it at Lincoln Center when I was seven. It's one of my favorite Puccini operas, and it's just so beautiful.
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RainyCrystal
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IMO, the two really can't be compared, consider they're two completely different things. But since I really do prefer originals over adaptations, and classical music over musical theatre, and La Boheme also happens to be one of my favorite operas, my vote goes to La Boheme.
~Sissi
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La Boheme
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La Boheme is clearly gods gift to mankind.
I made a funny.
teehee.
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jcstar
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I have never seen or heard La Boheme as a whole. I've heard/seen snippets from it, though.
(I think I should buy that mint conditioned 78rpm record series for La Boheme I saw in a local music store. 8 records, $1,000. Hmmm... should I or shouldn't I?)
I chose RENT, because I love it. But I refuse to compare the two.
Andy.
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