6/11/2023 0 Comments La boheme opera new york ny![]() Here she sings with a sensitivity to match her Rodolfo, exquisitely coloring her voice, as in her Mi chiamano Mimi, where she thins her voice at the start and then opens it out to bloom when she sings of the approach of spring. Mimi is Angela Gheorghiu, always a stellar singing actress. Tenor Ramón Vargas is an excellent Rodolfo, singing with passion, imaginative phrasing, and coloring his beautiful lyric voice to fit the text. The MET provides a luxurious cast to complement the sumptuous setting. TV director Gary Halvorsons establishing shots show a cutaway of the bohemians little garret precariously poised atop a sharply raked house, but he soon cuts to closeups of the playing space and the singers, creating a sense of warm interplay of personalities unavailable to the theatre audience. While Zeffirellis conception tends to scant the operas intimate scenes in the theatre, on DVD those scenes make heightened impact. Zeffirellis detailed directing even extends to the snow-filled Act III, where shadowy figures walk across the background hill in the distance while the principals are up front. The individuals making up the large crowds milling in front of the Café Momus each have some little stage business to do, giving the audience the feeling of participating in the onstage street festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its been criticized as an over-the-top spectacle, but as well as bringing breath-taking realism to the stage, its bursting with energy and directorial flair. Its large-scale settings and especially an Act II set that looks as if half the 1890s Paris Latin Quarter has been beamed direct to the MET. įranco Zeffirellis production of La Bohème is a perennial favorite at New Yorks Metropolitan Opera and it retains its power in this 2008 performance. Angela Gheorghiu and Ramon Vargas star in this Metropolitan Opera production of the Puccini opera conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
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