GIACOMO PUCCINI

 

La Bohème

 

Mimì......Anna Netrebko 

Rodolfo......Rolando Villazón 

Musetta......Nicole Cabell 

Marcello......Mariusz Kwiecien 

Schaunard......Boaz Daniel 

Colline......Vitalij Kowaljow 

Parpignol......Kevin Connors 

Benoit......Tiziano Bracci 

Alcindoro......Tiziano Bracci 

Sergente dei doganierie......Gerald Haeussler 

Un doganiere......Tiziano Bracci 

 

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Kinderchor des Stadttheaters am Gärtnerplatz / Peter Dijkstra

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Bertrand de Billy

 

A sparkling recording of Puccini’s La Bohème, recorded live at the Gasteig in Munich, under studio-like conditions. In three concert performances in April 2007, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Nicole Cabell, Boaz Daniel and conductor Bertrand de Billy generated a special chemistry. This is a cast with youth on its side, so there is real credibility to Puccini’s story of bohemians in Paris. Emotion, spontaneity, intensity: Puccini’s beloved opera demands them all. The audience had the rare chance to experience magic being created; a sensation that has been captured in this live but studio-like recording

 

A release that promises to become a Traviata-like hit, sweeping people away with the sheer verve and passion of the performances. It will appeal to opera lovers as well as a mainstream audience and ties perfectly in with the start of Puccini’s 150th birthday celebrations (22 December 1858).

 

“We get a Latinate passionate Rodolfo and a more delicately responsive Mimì, who blossoms under the warmth of the other’s yearning into a full declaration of love at the end.” Classic FM

 

Deutsche Grammophon 2cds 4776600