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La bohème / Nordic Stories and the Norwegian Opera and Ballet present ; [music by] Giacomo Puccini ; director, Stefan Herheim ; TV director, Stein-Roger Bull.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 2629
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Korean
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Filmed performances.
- Operas.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brighton, UK] : Electric Picture, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian; optional subtitles in English, French, German, Korean, Spanish and Italian.
- System Details:
- DVD 9; NTSC, region-free; aspect ratio 16:9; LPCM stereo, 5.1 DTS digital surround.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- LPCM
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "[Operatic director] Stefan Herheim ... superimposes the modern over the traditional in this ... new version of Puccini's La bohème. Freedom, love, and even death all demand a price that must be paid and the opera opens with Mimi dying of cancer in a modern intensive care unit; the overture begins just after the ECG machine displays its unmistakable flat green line. To escape the reality of Mimi's death Rodolfo remembers their life together, and the familiar story of the bohemians begins. As the spectre of Death haunts the scenes, Rodolfo's bohemian companions, including Musetta, are simultaneously their traditional selves as well as the doctors and hospital personnel in the modern world"--Container.
- Participant:
- Diego Torre (Rodolfo) ; Vasilij Ladjuk (Marcello) ; Marita Sølberg (Mimi) ; Jennifer Rowley (Musetta) ; Giovanni Battista Parodi (Colline) ; Espen Langvik (Schaunard) ; Svein Erik Sagbråtan (Benoit/Parpignol/Alcindoro/Toll Gate Keeper/Death) ; the Norwegian National Opera Chorus ; the Norwegian National Opera Children's Chorus ; the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra ; Eivind Gullberg Jensen, conductor.
- Credits:
- Heike Scheele, set and costume design ; Anders Poll, light design.
- Notes:
- Opera in four acts.
- Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie bohème.
- Recorded live at Oslo Opera House on 31 January and 4 February 2012.
- Program notes and synopsis in English, French and German (21 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container.
- Extras: Cast gallery; interviews.
- Contains:
- Container of: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème.
- OCLC:
- 840837022
- Publisher Number:
- 5026026660487 gtin-14
- 5060266600487
- EPCO 1 DVD Electric Picture
- EPC01DVD Electric Picture
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