Puccini - La Bohème
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), Boaz Daniel (Marcello), Stéphane Degout (Schaunard), Vitalij Kowaljow (Colline), Kevin Connors (Parpignol), Tiziano Bracci (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bertrand de Billy
As Rodolfo, Rolando Villazón is magnificent, by turns ardent and angry and there's a stream of bright golden tone in a ringing 'O soave fanciulla'. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: La Bohème RecommendedMirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Pavarotti's Rodolfo is perhaps the best thing he has ever done: not only the finest recorded account of the role since Björling's on the Beecham set, but adding the honeyed Italianate warmth... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Fernando Corena, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi
The Columbus Boychoir & RCA Victor Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
A classic, with extra electricity derived from the hasty recording, with Beecham's living, vivid conducting and a superb cast, both stellar and supporting, even though the mono sound is less... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo), Ludovic Tézier (Marcello), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Oren Gradus (Colline), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro), Meredith Derr (Parpignol), Robert Maher (Sergente dei doganieri), Richard Pearson (Un doganiere)
The Metropolitan...
…the spectacular Zeffirelli staging, now rather showing its age. It still makes a good frame… for Ramón Vargas's engaging Rodolfo, sung with ardour, and Gheorghiu's fine-toned but rather grand... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: La Bohème Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol), Hans-Dieter Appelt (Sergente dei doganieri), Hans-Dietrich Pohl (Un doganiere)
Berlin...
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Puccini: La Bohème
Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo), Nicole Car (Mimì), Mariusz Kwiecien (Marcello), Simona Mihai (Musetta), Florian Sempey (Schaunard), Luca Tittoto (Colline), Jeremy White (Benoît), Wyn Pencarreg (Alcindoro); Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
The Royal Opera glows with warmth. Antonio Pappano is in his element relishing every detail in Puccini's score slipping into the Act 1 duet for Rodolfo and Mimi as if we'd never heard it before. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Opera Choice
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Puccini: La Bohème
Arr. M. van Bellen & M. Halvorsen for Violin & Piano
Mathieu van Bellen, Mathias Halvorsen
Such is the emotional commitment of the two musicians, the sense of immediacy in the recording, and the lush, dynamic playing...that by the time we reach the end it is quite possible to forget... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Chamber Choice
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Puccini: La Bohème
Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Merrill, Lucine Amara & Giorgio Tozzi
RCA Victor Chorus and Orchestra (Thomas Martin) & The Columbus Boychoir (Herbert Huffman), Sir Thomas Beecham
One of the great classics of recording, expertly restored. Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Björling are an incomparable pair, and Beecham's conducting is, as ever, inimitable. — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedMontserrat Caballé (Mimi), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Marcello), Judith Blegen (Musetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Colline), Vincenzo Sardinero (Schaunard), Noel Mangin (Benoit), Nico Castel (Alcindoro), Alan Byers (Parpignol)
John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir &...
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Opera Recording
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Riccardo Chailly - Concert, Opera, Documentary
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orquesta de La Comunitat Valenciana, Lars Vogt, Nikolaj Znaider, Riccardo Chailly
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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