La bohème

Resource Information

The work La bohème represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

La bohème

Statement of responsibility

by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica ; production by Fabrizo Melano ; television director, Kirk Browning ; The Metropolitan Opera

Contributor

• Monk, Allan
• Niska, Maralin
• Pavarotti, Luciano
• Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919
• Pizzi, Pier Luigi, 1930-
• Wixell, Ingvar
• Levine, James, 1943-2021
• Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)
• Melano, Fabrizio
• Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906
• Plishka, Paul, 1941-
• Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
• Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008
• Randall, Tony
• Scotto, Renata, 1934-
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), Orchestra
• Tajo, Italo
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), Chorus
• Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Wechsler, Gil

Conductor

• Levine, James, 1943-2021

Costume designer

• Pizzi, Pier Luigi, 1930-

Director

• Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008

Designer

• Pizzi, Pier Luigi, 1930-

Host

• Randall, Tony

Librettist

• Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906
• Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919

Lighting designer

• Wechsler, Gil

Performer

• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), Orchestra
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), Chorus

Producer

• Melano, Fabrizio

Vocalist

• Plishka, Paul, 1941-
• Tajo, Italo
• Wixell, Ingvar
• Scotto, Renata, 1934-
• Monk, Allan
• Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994
• Niska, Maralin
• Pavarotti, Luciano

Subject

• Operas -- Television adaptations
• Televised operas
• Bohemianism -- Drama
• Love -- Drama
• Nonfiction films
• Opera -- Performance

Genre

• Drama
• Nonfiction films
• Opera
• Televised operas
• Television adaptations

Language

• ita
• ita
• eng
• ita
• eng
• ger
• fre
• spa
• chi
• ita

Summary

A four-act opera set in 19th-century Paris about a poor poet and his love for a beautiful girl who dies of tuberculosis

Cataloging source

CIN

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Set and costume design, Pier Luigi Pizzi ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler

Date time place

Recorded in performance Mar. 15, 1977, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City; broadcast as a segment of the Live from the Met series

Dewey number

• 782.1/078
• 792.542

Language note

• Sung in Italian, with optional subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish or Chinese
• Sung in Italian, with subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, and Chinese

LC call number

M1500.P83

LC item number

B64 2005

PerformerNote

• Host, Tony Randall
• Renata Scotto (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Maralin Niska (Musetta), Ingvar Wixell (Marcello), Allan Monk (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Colline), Italo Tajo (Benoit), Andrea Velis (Alcindoro) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor

Runtime

123

Technique

live action