Puccini: La Bohème (DVD) – Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car
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Puccini: La Bohème (DVD) – Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Artists: Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Simona Mihai, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Tittoto, Florian Sempey, Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: Richard Jones
Format: NTSC
Language: Italian
Subtitles: French, English, German, Japanese, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: September 28, 2018
Run Time: 111 minutes; plus 11 minutes bonus material
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 on this release include Antonio Pappano speaking about the music as well as 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).
History
La Bohème
One of the most popular operas of all time, Giacomo Puccini’s timeless masterpiece, La Bohème made its world première on February 1,1896, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, where it was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
Set in Paris, in the 1830s, the near-destitute artist Marcello and poet Rodolfo try to keep warm on Christmas Eve in their Latin Quarter garret by feeding the stove with pages from Rodolfo’s latest drama. When Mimì, their neighbor, knocks on the door asking to borrow a candle she and Rodolfo
meet. Thus begins a fateful relationship as the two struggle to sustain their love against the challenges of poverty, jealousy and physical decline.
The Metropolitan Opera staged La Bohème for the first time on December 26,1900, with Luigi Mancinelli conducting. Since then it has been performed at the Met over a thousand times. Its 2018/2019 season production was hailed by the New York Times as “A thrilling La Bohème … radiating warmth … luxury cast”.
Puccini died in Brussels on November 29, 1924. The news of his death reached Rome during a performance of La Bohème. The opera was immediately stopped and the orchestra played Chopin’s Funeral March for the stunned audience.
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