David Miller (tenor) et Juliette". Luhrmann's version of "La bohème" premiered in Sydney ten years before it debuted on Broadway. David was one of 3 Rodolfos in the original Broadway cast. Outside of Il Divo he has also taken roles such as Don Ottavio in Mozart's "Don Giovanni", Belmonte in "Abduction from the Seraglio" and Tom Rakewell in "The Rake's Progress". In December 2007, while Il Divo was taking a break from their world tour, David made a return to the classical opera stage. He performed in recital with the Chicago Pops Orchestra, singing a variety of tenor arias as well as some
Persian Letters texts and renewed perspectives. Particularly important were the extensively annotated edition by Paul Vernière and the research of Robert Shackleton on Muslim chronology; also studies by Roger Laufer, Pauline Kra and Roger Mercier, which put new focus on the work’s unity and integrated the seraglio into its overall meaning. Others who have followed have looked into the ramifications of epistolary form, the structure and meaning of the seraglio, Usbek’s contradictions. Beginning about 1970 it is religion (Kra) and especially politics (Ehrard, Goulemot, Benrekassa) which predominate in studies on "Lettres persanes", with a progressive return to the role of the seraglio