The Florentine’s ‘La bohème’ will be sung in Italian (with supertitles visible overhead), and although Puccini’s music will not be reimagined as jazz, the original libretto has been modified to reflect 1940s Milwaukee.
The world premiere of Michael Pink’s The Nutcracker: Drosselmeyer’s Imaginarium should lift Milwaukee’s reputation as a significant center for the arts in America to new heights.