OK, I admit it. I have become jaded. I attended the recent performance of La Boheme at the Met and I found myself very reluctant to again encounter the Zeffirelli production. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with the Zeffirelli production. It is just that after more years than I care to count and more performances than I can remember, I am tired of it. Actually, I dread it. They should change the libretto so that Rodolfo sings to Mimi, "of all the artist's garrets in all the towns in all the world, you walk into mine." Why Paris? Why this same room, the same table, chairs, food basket to be lowered from the ceiling? Why the same old inn in which Marcello and Musetta live? Why the same Cafe Momus? This proves the old adage about too much of a good thing.
To be fair, there were some minor changes in the movements of the characters on stage. That was refreshing. And the cast was good.