Puccini: La Bohème

Individual performances are perceptive and human. Charles Castronovo makes a likeable Rodolfo, his sense of Italianate style as much an asset as the dynamic range of his lyric tenor...With Sonya... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021 More…

Release Date: 23rd Apr 2021
Catalogue No: OABD7287D
Label: Opus Arte

Puccini: La Bohème

Sonya Yoncheva (Mimì), Charles Castronovo (Rodolfo), Andrzej Filończyk (Marcello), Simona Mihai (Musetta), Gyula Nagy (Schaunard), Peter Kellner (Colline), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company)
Emmanuel Villaume

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"Sonya Yoncheva and Charles Castronovo lead an award-winning cast in Richard Jones's acclaimed production of Puccini's most heartrending opera. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus in some of the composer's most luscious and memorable music. Spectacular designs by Stewart Laing for this Royal Opera production set the passion, friendship, comedy and tragedy in late 19th-century Paris. The production evokes the vulnerability of youth amid the harshness and glamour of the big city, and contrasts the poverty of the bohemians's attic home with the splendour of Paris's shopping arcades on Christmas Eve."

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July 2021

Individual performances are perceptive and human. Charles Castronovo makes a likeable Rodolfo, his sense of Italianate style as much an asset as the dynamic range of his lyric tenor...With Sonya Yoncheva’s Mimì, one is aware of the character’s illness from the moment you see her, while her lavish tone works perfectly for Puccini’s writing...Villaume keeps the score nicely on the move in an interpretation full of feeling and detail.

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