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
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
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Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse
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Staged by Davide Livermore
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 DVD: NTSC 16:9
Sound Formats DVD: PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
DTS 5.1
Region Code: 0 (worldwide)
Running Time: 114:13 min
Subtitles: Original (Italiano), English, Deutsch, Français, Korean, Japanese
Contents and tracklist
- 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
Awards and reviews
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.
