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La Bohème : opera in four acts

Title: La Bohème : radio broadcast, 2009-01-03 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2009.

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Description

3 sound discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 3, 2009

Uniform Title

Bohème
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 3, 2009.

Alternative Title

Bohème

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 3, 2009.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff) ; Act 1 ; commentary and synopsis of act 2 (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act 2 ; Loren Toolajian speaks with Maija Kovalevska and Ramón Vargas ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews wardrobe supervisor, Susie Gomez) ; Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Danielle De Niese, host, with William Berger, Anne Ewers, Fadel Friedlander-Fulkerson, and Neil Funkhouser) [beginning] -- CD 2. Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz [conclusion] ; Met Memory (Mary Jo Heath interviews opera fan, Marty Jeiven) ; synopsis of act 3 and commentary (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act 3 ; Loren Toolajian speaks with Susanna Phillips and Mariusz Kwiecień) ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews audio engineer, Ed Beaty) ; Juntwait discusses La Rondine with Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna ; Tribute to Met stars who died in 2008, including clips from Met broadcasts (Giuliano Ciannella, Sergeĭ Larin, Gianni Raimondi, Robert Nagy, Klara Barlow, Peter Glossop, Frances Yeend, Richard Van Allan, Gail Robinson, Ryan Smith, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nathaniel Merrill, Nicola Rescigno, and Anthony Minghella) ; Met Memory (Mary Jo Heath speaks with Benita Valente about the Met's 1984 production of Handel's Rinaldo) ; synopsis of act 4 and commentary (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act 4 [beginning] -- CD 3. Act 4 [conclusion] ; closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 47780

OCLC

489244519

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

La Bohème : radio broadcast, 2009-01-03 [sound recording] : opera in four acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2009.

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 3, 2009

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Jan. 3, 2009.

Performer

Maija Kovalevska (Mimì) ; Susanna Phillips (Musetta) ; Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo) ; Mariusz Kwiecień (Marcello) ; Tommi Hakala (Schaunard) ; Oren Gradus (Colline) ; Paul Plishka (Benoit, Alcindoro) ; Daniel Clark Smith (Parpignol) ; John Shelhart (Sergeant) ; Joseph Turi (Officer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Frédéric Chaslin, conductor ; Margaret Juntwait, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 73, no. 7 (Jan. 2009).

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 3, 2009.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Juntwait, Margaret. Commentator

Siff, Ira. Commentator

Kovalevska, Maĭ︠i︡a. Performer. Interviewee

Phillips, Susanna, 1981- Performer. Interviewee

Vargas, Ramon, 1960- Performer. Interviewee

Kwiecień, Mariusz, 1972- Performer. Interviewee

Hakala, Tommi. Performer

Gradus, Oren. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Smith, Daniel Clark. Performer

Shelhart, John. Performer

Turi, Joseph. Performer

Chaslin, Frédéric. Conductor

Toolajian, Loren. Interviewer

Lewin, Naomi. Interviewer

Gomez, Susie. Interviewee

De Niese, Danielle. Host

Berger, William, 1961- Commentator

Ewers, Anne. Commentator

Friedlander-Fulkerson, Fadel. Commentator

Funkhouser, Neil. Commentator

Jeiven, Marty. Interviewee

Heath, Mary Joanne Renner, 1954- Interviewer

Beaty, Ed. Interviewee

Gheorghiu, Angela. Commentator

Alagna, Roberto. Commentator

Valente, Benita. Commentator

Murger, Henri, 1822-1861. Scènes de la vie de Bohème.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Donor NN-RHA

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 47780

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