What Makes Baz Boheme Work On Broadway?

Opera and Broadway have long tried to mix it up – but rarely with success. Somehow, despite the rising popularity of crossover, one can’t escape the conventional wisdom that opera and Broadway occupy two distinct and conflicting worlds. How, then, is one to react to the surprise success of Baz Luhrmann’s $6.5 million production of Puccini’s La Bohème on Broadway?”