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Puccini: La Bohème

Puccini: La Bohème

Kiri Te Kanawa is a lovely Mimì, but the rest of the cast is less strong, with a piercing Rodolfo from Richard Leech. The dynamic scale is wrong, too, suggesting a grand opera, not an intimate one. Michael Tanner


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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm

COMPOSERS: Puccini
LABELS: Warner
WORKS: La Bohème
PERFORMER: Te Kanawa, Leech, Gustafson; Ambrosian Singers; LSO/Nagano
CATALOGUE NO: 2564 68017-9



Kiri Te Kanawa is a lovely Mimì, but the rest of the cast is less strong, with a piercing Rodolfo from Richard Leech. The dynamic scale is wrong, too, suggesting a grand opera, not an intimate one. 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.
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