Puccini: La bohème

Zeffirelli’s production puts half of Paris onstage but, despite lush conducting, lacks vital intimacy and warmth. Carreras offers a subdued Rodolfo and Stratas a vocally undernourished Mimì. Michael Scott Rohan

 

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3

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:28 pm

COMPOSERS: Puccini
LABELS: DG
WORKS: La bohème
PERFORMER: Stratas, Scotto, Carreras; Metropolitan Opera/Levine; dir. Zeffirelli (1981)
CATALOGUE NO: DG 073 4539

Zeffirelli’s production puts half of Paris onstage but, despite lush conducting, lacks vital intimacy and warmth. Carreras offers a subdued Rodolfo and Stratas a vocally undernourished Mimì. Michael Scott Rohan

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