Puccini: La Boheme (recorded live Covent Garden in 2018)
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Puccini: La Boheme (recorded live Covent Garden in 2018)
Royal Opera / Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo), Nicole Car, Mariusz Kwiecien, Nadine Sierra, Florian Sempey / Antonio Pappano (cond)
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 September 2018
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A penniless poet, a young seamstress, and a lost key: Puccini's passionate opera tells the story of a captivating romance set against the background of 19th-century Paris. The luscious score, with its soaring melodies and rich orchestration, brings to life the relationships between Rodolfo, Mimì and their friends, the painter Marcello and fiery Musetta. Acclaimed director Richard Jones stages a fresh and intelligent new production of one of the world's most popular operas, conducted by The Royal Opera's Music Director, Antonio Pappano. Extra Features: Introduction, Antonio Pappano talks about the music; and a Cast Gallery. 'A startlingly new production' (The Independent). ' ... fresh, beautiful, and intelligent' (The Daily Telegraph). 'Car is so good at the sudden bursts of lyricism' (The Art Desk).
"The American tenor Michael Fabiano justly earned the evening's loudest applause. He sings Rodolfo with open ardour - perhaps giving out a little too much in the first act where the guy's naivete is the key, but marvellously confident and expressive in the later acts. The Australian soprano Nicole Car was his beloved Mimì. Slender and plainly pretty, she looked the part to perfection. There's no angelic shine to the sounds she makes above the stave, but she came into her own voicing the girl's miseries in Act 3. Antonio Pappano conducted a score he knows like the back of his hand. The orchestral playing was splendid." Telegraph
