Puccini: La Boheme

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Opera - La Bohčme

Giacomo Puccini

La bohčme

111:00

A Bohemian Life

COMPACT DISC ONE

54:57

Opera in four acts

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Henry Murger's Scčnes de la vie de bohčme

English version by William Grist and Percy Pinkerton, with amendments by David parry

Act I

35:26

Marcello - 'This Red Sea Passage feels deep and chill to me'

4:21

(Marcello, Rodolfo, Colline)

Colline - 'Profound and thoughtful!'

1:21

(Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo)

Rodolfo - 'Firewood!'

3:48

(Rodolfo, Marcello, Colline, Schaunard)

Benoit - 'Hello'

5:33

(Benoit, Marcello, Schaunard, Colline, Rodolfo)

Rodolfo - 'I'll stay here, I must complete my article'

1:00

(Rodolfo, Marcello, Colline, Schaunard)

Rodolfo - 'No inspiration'

2:44

(Rodolfo, Mimė)

Mimė - 'Oh! How dreadful!'

1:40

(Mimė, Rodolfo)

Rodolfo - 'Your tiny hand is frozen!'

4:40

(Rodolfo)

Mimė - 'Yes, I'm always called Mimė'

5:17

(Mimė, Rodolfo)

Schaunard - 'Hey! Rodolfo!'

0:48

(Schaunard, Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo, Mimė)

Rodolfo - 'Lovely maid in the moonlight'

45:16

(Rodolfo, Mimė)

Act II

19:20

Hawkers - 'Come, buy my oranges!'

2:48

(Chorus, Schaunard, Rodolfo, Mimė, Colline, Marcello)

Rodolfo - 'What is it?'

3:18

(Rodolfo, Mimė, Schaunard, Marcello, Chorus)

Children - 'Long live Parpignol!'

3:12

(Chorus,Schaunard, Marcello, Colline, Rodolfo, Mimė, Alcindoro, Musetta)

Marcello - 'You had better ask me'

2:40

(Marcello, Musetta, Alcindoro, Colline, Schaunard, Chorus, Rodolfo, Mimė)

Musetta - 'As thro' the street I wander'

5:04

(Musetta, Marcello, Alcindoro, Mimė, Rodolfo, Colline, Schaunard)

Colline - 'Who had him bring it?'

2:17

(Colline, Schaunard, Rodolfo, Marcello, Chorus, Musetta, Mimė)

COMPACT DISC TWO

56:03

Act III

26:11

Scavengers - 'Hallo! You soldiers! Admit us!'

3:41

(Chorus, Customs Official, Musetta)

Mimė - 'Oh, please sir, tell me, do you know the tavern'

1:46

(Mimė, Customs Sergeant, Customs Official)

Marcello - 'Mimė!' - Mimė - 'I hoped that I would find you here'

4:57

(Marcello, Mimė)

Rodolfo - 'Marcello, you're outside here'

1:45

(Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimė)

Rodolfo - 'Mimė is fickle-hearted'

1:25

(Rodolfo, Marcello)

Rodolfo - 'Mimė's so sickly, so ailing!'

3:29

(Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimė)

Mimė - 'To the home that she left'

3:13

(Mimė)

Rodolfo - 'Then it really is over'

5:55

(Rodolfo, Mimė, Marcello, Musetta)

Act IV

29:45

Marcello - 'In a coupé?'

1:13

(Marcello, Rodolfo)

Rodolfo - 'Oh Mimė, our love is over'

5:47

(Rodolfo, Marcello, Schaunard, Colline)

Colline - 'Gavotta'

1:47

(Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo, Schaunard)

Musetta - 'It's Mimė! It's Mimė who is with me'

6:04

(Musetta, Rodolfo, Schaunard, Mimė, Marcello)

Colline - 'Venerable garment, listen'

2:38

(Colline, Schaunard)

Mimė - 'Have they left us?'

6:53

(Mimė, Rodolfo, Schaunard)

Musetta - 'Sleeping?' - Rodolfo - 'Just resting'

2:16

(Musseta, Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimė)

Rodolfo - 'What did the doctor say?'

2:58

(Rodolfo, Marcello, Musetta, Schaunard, Colline)

Cynthia Haymon soprano - Mimė

Dennis O'Neill tenor - Rodolfo

Alan Opie baritone - Marcello

Alastair Miles bass - Colline

William Dazeley baritone - Schaunard

Andrew Shore baritone - Benoit

Mark Milhofer tenor - Parpignol

Marie McLaughlin soprano - Musetta

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Peter Kay Children's Choir

Philharmonia Orchestra

David Parry

Recorded in:

Blackheath Halls, London

3-7 September 1997

Producer(s)

Brian Couzens

Sound Engineer(s)

Ralph Couzens

Richard Smoker (Assistant)

Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 20 Bit

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