The team behind "u-Carmen eKhayelitsha" - a modern remake of Georges Bizet's classic 1875 opera "Carmen," shot entirely in Xhosa (one of South Africa's official languages), with an all-black South African cast, combining both music from the original opera with traditional music - are now going to do similar thing with Giacomo Puccini's classic 1896 opera, "La Boheme." The creative group's most recent film, a re-imagining of another operatic work, Benjamin Britten's 1957 piece, "Noye's Fludde," made its World Premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section at last...
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