Puccini: La Bohème

Gal James (Mimì), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Carmen Romeu (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (Colline), Mattia Olivieri (Schaunard) & Matteo Peirone (Benoît)

Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Riccardo Chailly

Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: ACC10283
Label: Accentus Music

Puccini: La Bohème

From the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia
Gal James (Mimì), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Carmen Romeu (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (Colline), Mattia Olivieri (Schaunard) & Matteo Peirone (Benoît)
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Riccardo Chailly

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The musical notes of this Puccini masterpiece provide the starting point and foundation for a new, highly successful collaboration between Riccardo Chailly and Davide Livermore. In their interpretation, there is "no moment, no movement, that goes against the musical meaning" (R. Chailly). The result is an energetic, authentic, and atmospherically strong Bohème, "in which every sacred phrase receives its own orchestral colour, its own dynamic and its own expression." (Corriere della Sera)

BONUS FILM (20 MIN): “THE MAKING OF LA BOHÈME IN VALENCIA”

(Subtitles: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Français)

Picture Format Blu-ray: NTSC 16:9

Full HD

Sound Formats Blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio, PCM Stereo

Region Code: 0 (worldwide)

Running Time: 114:13 min

Subtitles: Original (Italiano), English, Deutsch, Français, Korean, Japanese

Disc Format Blu-ray: BD 25

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February 2014

Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse

April 2014

the young cast make an appealing lot. The Israeli soprano Gal James...is a very impressive, straightforwardly affecting Mimi, and she sings with focused lyrico-spinto tone...Chailly conducts a lovely, naturally paced account of the score and the orchestra play very well for him. These virtues can't detract from overall disappointment with the production, though.

May 2014

In terms of individual interpretations, too, this is an unusually convincing Bohème, with credibly young performers playing the central quartet and singing with textual focus and musical style. Aquiles Machado is an ardent Rodolfo, flanked by the genial and grand-scale Marcello of Massimo Cavalletti, who possesses real star quality. Gal James’s healthy-looking Mimì benefits from her rich lyric tone and shapely phrasing.

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