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Scene from: La Bohème

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli

As a body, critics are not easily moved, especially by familiar works like La Bohème. However, this production from the Royal Opera House proved to be one of the rare exceptions. The lovers, Mimi and Rodolfo, are sung by Ileana Cotrubas, the Romanian soprano, and Neil Shicoff the American tenor.
In The Listener, Puccini's biographer, Mosco Carner, wrote of Miss Cotrubas's Mimi that she has "..... just the right voice for this role. There is a touch of ineffable sadness to her singing – it is singing with, as it were, tears on it". Of Neil Shicoff's performance, Anthony Merryn remarked in The Stage "..... his Rodolfo was much more than a mere tenor. One could believe in him as a sensitive writer in a wretched environment, showing Mimi his work, involved with her, undergoing ecstasy, torment and grief as a real person."
Lamberto Gardelli conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of The Royal Opera House. Directed by Brian Large and produced by John Copley.

Cast: Mimi - Ileana Cotrubas, Rodolfo - Neil Shicoff, Marcello - Thomas Allen, Musetta - Marilyn Zschau, Colline - Gwynne Howell, Schaunard - John Rawnsley, Benoit - Brian Donlan, Alcindoro - John Gibbs, Parpignol - Daniel McCoshan, A Customs Officer - Richard Hazell, A Sergeant - David Whelan.

Catalogue: 4509992222

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