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Puccini - La boheme

13/09/2012

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Penny Gore presents Puccini's La boheme performed at the 2012 Salzburg Festival.

Penny Gore presents a performance given at the 2012 Salzburg Festival of Puccini's La boheme. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Delius's The Song of the High Hills.

Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala star as tragic lovers Mimì and Rodolfo in a classic tearjerker for this week's Thursday Opera Matinee: Puccini's La Bohème, one of the highlights of the 2012 Salzburg Festival.

Her tiny hand is frozen - starving, consumptive seamstress Mimì enjoys a few months of winter happiness in her Paris garret with the equally penniless poet-next-door Rodolfo, before the inevitable unhappy ending. 

Presented by Penny Gore.

Plus another adopted Parisian - Frederick Delius - take the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Davis climbing in the Norwegian mountains.

Opera Matinee
Puccini: La Bohème

Rodolfo ..... Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Mimi ..... Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Marcello ..... Massimo Cavalletti (baritone)
Musetta ..... Nino Machaidze (soprano)
Schaunard ..... Alessio Arduini (baritone)
Colline ..... Carlo Colombara (bass)
Benoit / Alcindoro ..... Davide Fersini (bass)
Parpignol ..... Steven Forster (tenor).

Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association,
Salzburg Festival Children's Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Daniele Gatti (conductor).

c. 3.50pm
Delius: The Song of the High Hills
Olivia Robinson (soprano),
Christopher Bowen (tenor),
BBC Symphony Chorus,
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Davis (conductor).

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