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Puccini - La Bohème / Victoria De Los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Sir Thomas Beecham / EMI 1897-1997 100 Years Of Great Music / EMI Classics 2x Audio CD 1997 Mono
UPC 724355623621
La bohème (/ˌlɑːboʊˈɛm/; Italian: [la boˈɛm]) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830, and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "la bohème") of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
The world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide.
In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a commemorative performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. A recording of the performance was later released by RCA Victor on vinyl record, tape and compact disc. It is the only recording ever made of a Puccini opera by its original conductor (see Recording history below).
| Label: | EMI Classics – 724355623621 |
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| Series: | EMI 1897-1997 100 Years Of Great Music |
| Format: |
2 x CD, Album, Mono
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| Country: | |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Romantic |
Tracklist:
| 1.1 | Act 1 | |
| 1.2 | Act 2 | |
| 2.1 | Act 3 | |
| 2.2 | Act 4 |
- Chorus – R.C.A. Victor Chorus, The Columbus Boychoir
- Chorus Master – Thomas Martin (2)
- Composed By – Puccini
- Conductor – Sir Thomas Beecham
- Directed By – Herbert Huffman
- Orchestra – R.C.A. Victor Orchestra
- Vocals [Benoit, Alcindoro] – Fernando Corena
- Vocals [Colline] – Giorgio Tozzi
- Vocals [Marcello] – Robert Merrill
- Vocals [Mimi] – Victoria De Los Angeles
- Vocals [Musetta] – Lucine Amara
- Vocals [Parpignol] – William Nahr
- Vocals [Rodolfo] – Jussi Björling
- Vocals [Schaunard] – John Reardon (2)
- Vocals [Sergente] – George Del Monte
- Vocals [Un Doganiere] – Thomas Powell
