Description
Giakomo Puccini: La Boheme /
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
- Director : Stefan Herheim
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Classical
- Run time : 2 hours and 7 minutes
- Release date : October 30, 2012
- Actors : Diego Torre, Vasiliji Ladjuk, Marita Solberg, Jennifer Rowley, Giovanni Battista Parodi
- Subtitles: : English, French, German, Korean, Spanish, Italian
- Studio : Electric Picture
- Number of discs : 1
Opening with Mime (Marita Selberg) dying of cancer in a modern intensive care unit, Director Stefan Herheim superimposes the modern over the traditional in this dramatic and thought provoking new version of Puccini's La boheme. With Norway's internationally acclaimed Eivind Gullberg Jensen conducting, the production reaches superb heights of operatic drama.
La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "la bohème") of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
The world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide.
In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a commemorative performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. A recording of the performance was later released by RCA Victor on vinyl record, tape and compact disc. It is the only recording ever made of a Puccini opera by its original conductor.