Sunday, April 7, 2019
La Boheme at the Benedum

Retirees traveled to Pittsburgh by chartered bus to see the opera, La Boheme.  Set against the backdrop of 1830s Paris, La Bohème follows four impoverished artists surviving with little more than friendship, passion, and love for their art.  Emotional and dramatic, the opera has inspired both a ballet and the Broadway hit musical Rent.  

The Pittsburgh Opera offered the Retirees Association a substantial educational discount on tickets.  Plus, included on the bus trip was a pre-opera talk by Byron Nelson, a retiree from the WVU English Department and the OLLI instructor for Opera as Drama.   Byron also offered a short critical recap on the way home.