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Puccini/Britten - La Boheme | Signum SIGDVD004

Puccini/Britten - La Boheme

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGDVD004

Barcode: 0635212000496

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 27th April 2009

Contents

Artists

Mary Lincoln
Graham Mackay-Bruce
Darryl Knock
Tim Bruce
Ian K Jervis
Simon Masterton-Smith
Maria Kesselman
Alexandra Maitland-Hume
Nigel Planer
Music Theatre London

Works

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme

Artists

Mary Lincoln
Graham Mackay-Bruce
Darryl Knock
Tim Bruce
Ian K Jervis
Simon Masterton-Smith
Maria Kesselman
Alexandra Maitland-Hume
Nigel Planer
Music Theatre London

About

Writer/Director Tony Britten's version of Puccini's La Boheme is a ground breaking new take on an opera classic. Utilising actor/singers and a funny but hard-hitting script, the film seeks to achieve the sort of accessibility that Music Theatre London is renowned for in the theatre.

Four young men like living in the squalor of booze, dope and bad behaviour. Into this world enters the mysterious Mimi. She and the playwright, Rudolfo, fall in love and everything has to change. Rudolfo's immaturity is reflected in obsessive jealousy and failure to notice Mimi's drug problem. The lovers part and only when Mimi comes back to the squat to die, does Rudolfo comprehend the depths of his love, and the boys realise that growing up is violent and irrevocable.

The film version of La Boheme was shot on location in South-east London, nominated for an RTS award, and the Prix Italia, before being bought and broadcast by Channel 5.

"Brings to opera the kind of dramatic truth usually achieved only in straight theatre" - The Independent

"Stimulating, sexy, occasionally bitter" - Time Out

Cast:
- Mary Lincoln (Mimi)
- Graham Mackay-Bruce (Rodolfo)
- Darryl Knock (Marcello)
- Tim Bruce (Schaunard)
- Ian K. Jervis (Colline)
- Simon Masterton-Smith (Alcindoro)
- Maria Kesselman (Musetta);
- Alexandra Maitland-Hume (Tracy)
- Nigel Planer (Benoit)

Bonus: Commentary with Director Tony Britten.

Running Time: 93 mins

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