Director Nadja Simmonds aims to evoke a vibrant Bronzeville in Florentine`s `La Boheme`


Director Nadja Simmonds aims to evoke a vibrant Bronzeville in Florentine`s `La Boheme`


Still under 30, Nadja Simmonds has already run the gamut of musical theater, from playing a roadie in the glam-rock show "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and an air-guitar queen in "Airness" to staging work for the Florentine Opera.

Now she`s a leader of a truly distinctive production: Florentine`s "La Boheme," set in Milwaukee`s Bronzeville neighborhood in the 1940s, featuring eight principal singers who are Black and related stage art created by Nohl fellowship winner Ras ‘Ammar Nsoroma...


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