La Bohème

La Bohème / Giacomo Puccini.

There's a reason La Bohème has been done more often at the Met than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of young love, and the numbing sorrow of tragic death. The delectable Viennese soprano Hilde Güden is Mimì, the poor seamstress who falls in lo...

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Main Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 (Composer)
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (Performer)
Other Authors: Güden, Hilde (Performer), Fenn, Jean (Performer), Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981 (Performer), Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004 (Performer), Erede, Alberto (Conductor)
Format: Video
Language:Italian
Published: [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1953]
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Operas.
Live sound recordings > New York (State) > New York.
Live sound recordings
Operas
New York (State) > New York
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Summary:There's a reason La Bohème has been done more often at the Met than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of young love, and the numbing sorrow of tragic death. The delectable Viennese soprano Hilde Güden is Mimì, the poor seamstress who falls in love with her neighbor Rodolfo (the American tenor Eugene Conley), only to succumb to tuberculosis. The beloved Robert Merrill is the painter Marcello.
Item Description:Duration: 1 hr., 39 min., 40 sec.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 39 min., 40 sec.))
Playing Time:01:39:40
Participant or Performer:Hilde Güden ; Jean Fenn ; Eugene Conley ; Robert Merrill ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Alberto Erede, conductor.
Language:Sung in Italian.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Vendor-supplied metadata.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:Recorded live in 1953 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.

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