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Title La bohème / Opera Australia.

Publication Info. [London] : RM Associates ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color, ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Note Title from disc surface.
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Henry Murger's novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème.
Performer Cheryl Barker (Mimì); David Hobson (Rodolfo); Roger Lemke (Marcello); Christine Douglas (Musetta); Gary Rowley (Colline); David Lemke (Schaunard); Opera Australia Children's Chorus; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Julian Smith, conductor.
Credits Director, Baz Luhrmann; designers, Catherine Martin, Bill Marron.
Event Recorded live at the Sydney Opera House.
Note Originally produced in 1993.
Dolby stereo.
System Details DVD format.
Summary This bittersweet opera about high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet, and Mimì, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.
Language Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Genre/Form Operas.
Operas.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist.
Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.
Barker, Cheryl, performer.
Hobson, David, 1960- performer.
Lemke, Roger, performer.
Douglas, Christine, performer.
Rowley, Gary, performer.
Lemke, David, performer.
Smith, Julian, 1944- conductor.
Luhrmann, Baz, director.
Martin, Catherine, 1965-
Marron, Bill.
Murger, Henri, 1822-1861. Scènes de la vie de Bohème.
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème.
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, performer.
Opera Australia, performer.
Reiner Moritz Associates.
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Note At head of title: Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La bohème
Music No. ID1918RADVD RM Associates