Puccini

There are many lovely things about this set – the radiant Mimi of Mirella Freni, and the ardent Rodolfo of Nicolai Gedda. Schippers’s conducting is interesting, but the smaller parts are weakly cast.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:06 pm

COMPOSERS: Puccini
LABELS: EMI
ALBUM TITLE: La bohme
PERFORMER: Nicolai Gedda, Mirella Freni;

Rome Opera/Thomas Schippers

CATALOGUE NO: 392 0052

There are many lovely things about this set – the radiant Mimi of Mirella Freni, and the ardent Rodolfo of Nicolai Gedda. Schippers’s conducting is interesting, but the smaller parts are weakly cast.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.