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Title:

La Bohème [videorecording] / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica ; production, Franco Zeffirelli; a Metropolitan Opera production.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

The Metropolitan Opera,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)

Subject:

Operas.
Operas--Film and video adaptations.
Television programs.

Other Authors:

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906.
Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919.
Zeffirelli, Franco.
Gheorghiu, Angela.
Luisotti, Nicola.
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Boheme.
Murger, Henri, 1822-1861. Scènes de la vie de Bohème.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Chorus.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra.

Other Titles:

Great performances at the Met (Television program)

Notes:

Based on H. Murger's Scènes de la vie de Bohème. Produced live at the Metropolitan Opera. Program notes and synopsis in English inserted in container. Angela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Ramon Vargas (Rodolfo), Ludovic Tezier (Marcello), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Oren Gradus (Colline), Paul Plishka (Benoit and Alcindoro) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and chorus ; Nicola Luisotti, conductor ; Donald Palumbo, chorus master.

Summary:

Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.

Series:

EMI classics

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)