FULL Zeffirelli’s La Boheme Documentary Germany 2023 Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Pretty Yende, Roberto Alagna
Popular Singers in this Opera Recording
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Zeffirelli's La Boheme
- Composer: Puccini Giacomo
- Libretto: Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
- Venue & Opera Company: various
- Recorded: 1965 and 2023
- Type: Other
- Singers: Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino, Ivo Vinco, Pretty Yende, Roberto Alagna, Maria Rebeka
- Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
- Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
- Chorus: Coro del Teatro alla Scala
- Stage Director: Franco Zeffirelli
- Stage Designer: Franco Zeffirelli
- Costume Designer: Marcel Escoffier
Information about the Recording
- Published by: ARTE
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: ARTE FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
With “La bohème”, director Franco Zeffirelli signed his first film adaptation of a lyrical work in 1965. A look back at this legendary film, which largely contributed to the popularity of Puccini’s opera today.
In the 1960s, Franco Zeffirelli adapted Puccini’s La bohème for the big screen, in a desire to bring together cinema and lyrical art. For this very first opera filmed in a studio, the director calls on Austrian maestro Herbert von Karajan, who directs the La Scala Orchestra and a prestigious vocal ensemble including soprano Mirella Freni and tenor Gianni Raimondi. Released in 1965, the film is based on the production that Zeffirelli himself imagined for La Scala in Milan two years earlier, and which continues to be staged in the biggest theaters today. This double production, stage and cinematographic, raises La bohème to the rank of the most popular operas in the world. The extracts from this legendary film are punctuated with comments from great singers of today (Roberto Alagna, Pretty Yende, Marina Rebeka…), anecdotes told by Zeffirelli’s former assistant, Marco Gandini, and images of archives that give voice to the Italian filmmaker.