Conductor Emmanuel Villaume keeps the score nicely on the move in an interpretation full of feeling and detail. By Act IV, Musetta has sobered up and one senses a profound change in her character. CD/DVD - 23.50 - GIACOMO PUCCINIs immortal opera is brought to life in a new, specially filmed, big budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award.
Act III skilfully reveals the relationships between the two couples at their lowest ebb. In 2002, another restaged version was held on Broadway, which won 2 prestigious Tony Awards. In 1990, Baz Luhrmann modernized the opera onstage for Opera Australia, along with subsequent DVD release. Simona Mihai plays an outrageous Musetta in Act II, where she’s wildly drunk the whole scene, in fact, is irresistibly funny. La bohème soon crossed the Atlantic again, and was staged at New York and Los Angeles in its USA tour. With Sonya Yoncheva’s Mimì, one is aware of the character’s illness from the moment you see her, while her lavish tone works perfectly for Puccini’s writing.
Gyula Nagy’s Schaunard bubbles over with good-humour, and Peter Kellner’s Colline makes a touching moment out of his Act IV solo. Charles Castronovo makes a likeable Rodolfo, his sense of Italianate style as much an asset as the dynamic range of his lyric tenor, while Andrzej Filończyk’s Marcello offers energy and personality with vocal warmth. Individual performances are perceptive and human.
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