Italo Tajo

La agridulce ópera de Giacomo Puccini sobre animosos bohemios y el amor condenado entre Rodolfo, el poeta idealista y Mimi, la florista tísica, es una serie de cuadros maravillosamente equilibrados que representan la contagiosa alegría de vivir de la juventud y el trágico desperdicio de la enfermedad y separación. La legendaria e incomparable asociación de Mirella Freni y Luciano Pavarotti como los dos amantes ha sido capturada en esta grabación especial en vivo desde el escenario de la Ópera de San Francisco. Brian Large ha adaptado la producción de Francesca Zambello para video, iluminando aún más la fascinante interacción de los personajes de Puccini. Gino Quilico canta Marcello, el pintoresco y tempestuoso pintor, cuya tempestuosa relación con la coqueta Musetta (cantada por Sandra Pacetti), refleja cómicamente el amor más profundo de Rodolfo y Mimi. Nicolai Ghiaurov canta Colline.

Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This production, directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, features José Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto and Richard Stilwell. The opera is replete with extraordinary visual beauty as it presents the tragic story of young bohemians struggling to make it in the world.

Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many famous singers through the years. But with James Levine at the helm and the starry duo of Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto as Rodolfo and Mimi, every bit of emotion in the score pours across the footlights and seduces the audience. In this case, the audience was in the millions since this was the very first in the “Live from the Met” series of telecasts. The evocative production is by Fabrizio Melano, designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.

Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.

A crafty barber acts as a go-between for a count in disguise and rescues Rosina from marriage with her guardian. An operatic comedy.