La bohème / music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica ; from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Contributor:

Bundy, William.

Charlton, John (Lighting designer)

Copley, John, 1933-

Dukach, Inna, performer.

Gerzmava, Hibla, 1970- performer.

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist.

Ilincăi, Teodor, performer.

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.

Imbrailo, Jacques, performer.

Lough, Robin.

Maxwell, Donald, performer.

Nelsons, Andris, conductor.

Oman, Julia Trevelyan

Smoriginas, Kostas, performer.

Viviani, Gabriele, performer.

Whitaker, Frances.

Whitbourn, James.

White, Jeremy, 1953- performer.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Opera in video

Standardized Title:

Bohème

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 min.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Opus Arte, 2010.

Language Note:

Sung in Italian; optional English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish subtitles.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In an attic apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris, a group of young artists are living together in poverty. Their neighbour, the little seamstress Mimi, introduces herself, seeking a light for her candle, when Rodolfo is left alone. They fall in love. At the Café Momus Rodolfo presents Mimi to his friends, while the singer Musetta abandons her elderly rich lover Alcindoro in order to join Marcello. Alcindoro is left to settle the bill for all of them. Time has passed. Mimi has lived with Rodolfo, but they quarrel, because of his apparent jealousy. He has planned to leave her, as we learn in a scene set on a cold winter morning by the city gates. Musetta, a contrast in character to the gentle Mimi, later returns to the attic apartment of the four young men, bringing with her the dying Mimi, whom they now try to comfort, but in vain, as she dies before their eyes of the consumption that has racked her.

Notes:

"Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound."

Includes cast gallery and interviews with John Copley and Andris Nelsons.

Opera in 4 acts; libretto based on Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème.

Program notes and synopsis in English, French, and German inserted in original container.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Opera in video). Available via World Wide Web.

Contains:

Murger, Henri, 1822-1861. Scènes de la vie de Bohème.

Opus Arte (Firm)

Royal Opera (London, England), performer.

Other Format:

OA 1027 D

809478010272

OCLC:

820474221

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.