IN Series has announced the streaming premiere of its animated, Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini’s beloved classic, “BOHEME in the
Heights” on Dec. 20, 2021.

The work will be available for FREE at https://invision.inseries.org/productions/boheme-in-the-heights.

The opera is colorfully depicted in a fictionalized Columbia Heights during the winter and spring of 2020 and celebrates the exuberant creative power of youth and the transcendence of love while lamenting the universal heartbreak of loss.

The new film was produced in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with Music Director Carlos Cesar Rodriguez and the seven lead singers recording their roles in the isolation of their homes in the fall of 2020, while the Shenandoah University Chorus, recorded in small, distanced groups under the direction of Matthew Oltman, supplied the forces for the crowd scenes.

Once the audio was compiled, principals were professionally filmed one by one against a plain background. “BOHEME in the Heights” is set to star Alex Alburqueque, Peter Joshua Burroughs, Carl DuPont, Jarrod Lee, Louis Riva, Melissa Wimbish, and Judy Yannini.