Yes, it is the most popular opera in the world and has been since the 1960's... But popular doesn't mean great... It has unquestionably beautiful music, but it is also cloyingly sweet and sentimental and inoffensive. The tart with the heart dies of TB, while the lad learns an important life lesson about responsibility... The characters are derivative ciphers that really are "everybodies"...
Here is the ever gorgeous Cheryl Barker and David Hobson in Baz Luhrmann's legendary Australian Opera production of 1993...
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