Opera - La Bohème
GIACOMO PUCCINI
La bohème
111:00
A Bohemian Life
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)
Act III
26:11
18
Scavengers - 'Hallo! You soldiers! Admit us!'
3:41
(Chorus, Customs Official, Musetta)
19
Mimì - 'Oh, please sir, tell me, do you know the tavern'
1:46
(Mimì, Customs Sergeant, Customs Official)
20
Marcello - 'Mimì!' - Mimì - 'I hoped that I would find you here'
4:57
(Marcello, Mimì)
21
Rodolfo - 'Marcello, you're outside here'
1:45
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimì)
22
Rodolfo - 'Mimì is fickle-hearted'
1:25
(Rodolfo, Marcello)
23
Rodolfo - 'Mimì's so sickly, so ailing!'
3:29
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimì)
24
Mimì - 'To the home that she left'
3:13
(Mimì)
25
Rodolfo - 'Then it really is over'
5:55
(Rodolfo, Mimì, Marcello, Musetta)
Act IV
29:45
26
Marcello - 'In a coupé?'
1:13
(Marcello, Rodolfo)
27
Rodolfo - 'Oh Mimì, our love is over'
5:47
(Rodolfo, Marcello, Schaunard, Colline)
28
Colline - 'Gavotta'
1:47
(Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo, Schaunard)
29
Musetta - 'It's Mimì! It's Mimì who is with me'
6:04
(Musetta, Rodolfo, Schaunard, Mimì, Marcello)
30
Colline - 'Venerable garment, listen'
2:38
(Colline, Schaunard)
31
Mimì - 'Have they left us?'
6:53
(Mimì, Rodolfo, Schaunard)
32
Musetta - 'Sleeping?' - Rodolfo - 'Just resting'
2:16
(Musseta, Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimì)
33
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
David Parry
3-7 September 1997