Puccini
Published:
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
Authors
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.