Opera in Performance with Simon Healy

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Join Simon Healy every Sunday from 7.05pm as he presents Opera In Performance.
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Sunday 21 March 2010

La bohème (Opera in four acts to a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the novel 'Scènes de la vie de bohème' by Henry Murger
(Teatro Regio (now the Teatro Regio di Torino) 1 February, 1896)
)

by Giacomo Puccini

Act I On Christmas Eve, 1830, in a garret overlooking the rooftops of Paris, the poet Rodolfo and the artist Marcello are feeling the cold. Marcello suggests chopping up a chair, Rodolfo wants to burn the five-act drama he has been working on. Read the synopsis >

Cast includes:
Rodolfo, a poet: Piotr Beczala, tenor
Mimì, a seamstress: Anna Netrebko, soprano
Marcello, a painter: Gerald Finley, baritone
Schaunard, a musician: Massimo Cavalletti, baritone
Colline: Oren Gradus, bass
Musetta: Nicole Cabell, soprano
Benoit/Alcindoro: Paul Plishka, bass
Parpignol, a toy vendor: Jeremy Little, tenor
A customs official: Jospeh Turi, bass
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Recorded in New York last month
By arrangement with the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network
Post-production for ABC Classic FM by Simon Healy

Further ahead

Sunday 28 March 2010

Attila (Opera in one prologue and three acts to a libretto by Temistocle Solera based on the play ‘Attila, König der Hunnen’ (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner
(La Fenice, Venice, 17 March, 1846)
) by Giuseppe Verdi > More