There must be somebody out there left cold by Giacomo Puccini's "La Bohme." But who? -- and how? - The Wasington Post on Trelinski's rendition of La Boheme at the Washington National Opera.

If you don't respond to the frat-boy high jinks and intimate love music in the first act, the second act presents a bright, tuneful, crowded panorama of the city of Paris on a long ago Christmas Eve. If that still doesn't do it for you, Act 3 is among the most perfectly knit 25 minutes of music and drama ever accomplished. (Stephen Sondheim has called it his favorite act in Italian opera -- and the final quartet, with its citric pairing of sweet and sour lovers, quarreling and reconciling, might have come from his pen.) And then there is Act 4, which has inspired gentle Niagaras of private tears since the opera's premiere in 1896. Daniela Bruera as Musetta in La Scala's 2005 show. Washington National Opera's season-opener next month, with alternating casts, will be directed by the avant-garde Mariusz Trelinski. (By Marco Brescia -- La Scala Via Associated Press) It ought to surprise nobody that "La Bohme" is coming back to the Kennedy Center this year. It comes back all the tim