Giacomo Puccini - Opera - La Bohème (Chandos Audio CD)

Opera - La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini

La bohème 111:00
A Bohemian Life
COMPACT DISC ONE 54:57
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème
English version by William Grist and Percy Pinkerton, with amendments by David parry
Act I 35:26
1 Marcello - 'This Red Sea Passage feels deep and chill to me' 4:21
(Marcello, Rodolfo, Colline)
2 Colline - 'Profound and thoughtful!' 1:21
(Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo)
3 Rodolfo - 'Firewood!' 3:48
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Colline, Schaunard)
4 Benoit - 'Hello' 5:33
(Benoit, Marcello, Schaunard, Colline, Rodolfo)
5 Rodolfo - 'I'll stay here, I must complete my article' 1:00
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Colline, Schaunard)
6 Rodolfo - 'No inspiration' 2:44
(Rodolfo, Mimì)
7 Mimì - 'Oh! How dreadful!' 1:40
(Mimì, Rodolfo)
8 Rodolfo - 'Your tiny hand is frozen!' 4:40
(Rodolfo)
9 Mimì - 'Yes, I'm always called Mimì' 5:17
(Mimì, Rodolfo)
10 Schaunard - 'Hey! Rodolfo!' 0:48
(Schaunard, Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo, Mimì)
11 Rodolfo - 'Lovely maid in the moonlight' 45:16
(Rodolfo, Mimì)
Act II 19:20
12 Hawkers - 'Come, buy my oranges!' 2:48
(Chorus, Schaunard, Rodolfo, Mimì, Colline, Marcello)
13 Rodolfo - 'What is it?' 3:18
(Rodolfo, Mimì, Schaunard, Marcello, Chorus)
14 Children - 'Long live Parpignol!' 3:12
(Chorus,Schaunard, Marcello, Colline, Rodolfo, Mimì, Alcindoro, Musetta)
15 Marcello - 'You had better ask me' 2:40
(Marcello, Musetta, Alcindoro, Colline, Schaunard, Chorus, Rodolfo, Mimì)
16 Musetta - 'As thro' the street I wander' 5:04
(Musetta, Marcello, Alcindoro, Mimì, Rodolfo, Colline, Schaunard)
17 Colline - 'Who had him bring it?' 2:17
(Colline, Schaunard, Rodolfo, Marcello, Chorus, Musetta, Mimì)

COMPACT DISC TWO 56:03
Act III 26:11
1 Scavengers - 'Hallo! You soldiers! Admit us!' 3:41
(Chorus, Customs Official, Musetta)
2 Mimì - 'Oh, please sir, tell me, do you know the tavern' 1:46
(Mimì, Customs Sergeant, Customs Official)
3 Marcello - 'Mimì!' - Mimì - 'I hoped that I would find you here' 4:57
(Marcello, Mimì)
4 Rodolfo - 'Marcello, you're outside here' 1:45
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimì)
5 Rodolfo - 'Mimì is fickle-hearted' 1:25
(Rodolfo, Marcello)
6 Rodolfo - 'Mimì's so sickly, so ailing!' 3:29
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimì)
7 Mimì - 'To the home that she left' 3:13
(Mimì)
8 Rodolfo - 'Then it really is over' 5:55
(Rodolfo, Mimì, Marcello, Musetta)
Act IV 29:45
9 Marcello - 'In a coupé?' 1:13
(Marcello, Rodolfo)
10 Rodolfo - 'Oh Mimì, our love is over' 5:47
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Schaunard, Colline)
11 Colline - 'Gavotta' 1:47
(Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo, Schaunard)
12 Musetta - 'It's Mimì! It's Mimì who is with me' 6:04
(Musetta, Rodolfo, Schaunard, Mimì, Marcello)
13 Colline - 'Venerable garment, listen' 2:38
(Colline, Schaunard)
14 Mimì - 'Have they left us?' 6:53
(Mimì, Rodolfo, Schaunard)
15 Musetta - 'Sleeping?' - Rodolfo - 'Just resting' 2:16
(Musseta, Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimì)
16 Rodolfo - 'What did the doctor say?' 2:58
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Musetta, Schaunard, Colline)
Cynthia Haymon soprano - Mimì
Dennis O'Neill tenor - Rodolfo
Alan Opie baritone - Marcello
Alastair Miles bass - Colline
William Dazeley baritone - Schaunard
Andrew Shore baritone - Benoit
Mark Milhofer tenor - Parpignol
Marie McLaughlin soprano - Musetta
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Peter Kay Children`s Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry
Recorded in:
Blackheath Halls, London
3-7 September 1997
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Richard Smoker (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 20 Bit