La Bohème [videorecording] / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica ; production, Fabrizio Melano; set and costume design, Pier Luigi Pizzi; a Metropolitan Opera television production.
Based on H. Murger's Scènes de la vie de Bohème. Produced live at the Metroploitan Opera on 15 March 1977. Program notes and synopsis in English (12 p. : ports.) inserted in container. Renata Scotto (Mimi) ; Maralin Niska (Musetta) ; Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo) ; Ingvar Wixell (Marcello) ; Allan Monk (Schaunard) ; Paul Plishka (Colline) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
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.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)71291285
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
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