Highlights of the complete recording of La Bohème, to be released as the only soundtrack of the La Bohème movie filmed by director Robert Dornhelm and starring Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón This is the first opera movie in many years that has been created especially for theatrical screening Great actors on the opera stage, Netrebko and Villazón have already shown with the best-selling 2005 Salzburg La Traviata that their artistry comes across superbly on camera.

A sparkling performance of La Bohème was captured live at the Gasteig in Munich under perfect studio-like conditions. The special atmosphere of the recording will form an ideal foundation for this film version of Puccini’s tale of artisans in Paris. The movie will be produced in February and is scheduled for cinematic release in Europe late 2008.