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Puccini: La boheme [Box set]

~ Andrea Bocelli
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  • Audio CD (6 Nov 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Decca (UMO)
  • ASIN: B00004X16E
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 91,246 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Questo Mar Rosso"Paolo Gavanelli 4:31£0.79
Listen  2. La Bohème / Act 1 - Pensier profondo"Mario Luperi 1:13£0.79
Listen  3. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Abasso, abbasso l'autor!"Paolo Gavanelli 4:07£0.79
Listen  4. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Si può" - "Chi è là?"Giorgio Gatti 5:26£0.79
Listen  5. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Io resto"Andrea Bocelli0:55£0.29
Listen  6. La Bohème / Act 1 - Non sono in vena!Andrea Bocelli 1:31£0.79
Listen  7. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Si sente meglio?"Andrea Bocelli 2:42£0.79
Listen  8. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Che gelida manina"Andrea Bocelli 4:40£0.79
Listen  9. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì"Barbara Frittoli 5:24£0.79
Listen10. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Ehi! Rodolfo!"Natale De Carolis0:44£0.29
Listen11. La Bohème / Act 1 - "O soave fanciulla"Andrea Bocelli 4:04£0.79
Listen12. La Bohème / Act 2 - "Arranci, datteri!"Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2:55£0.79
Listen13. La Bohème / Act 2 - Chi guardi?Andrea Bocelli0:55£0.29
Listen14. La Bohème / Act 2 - Questa è Mimi, gaia fioraiaAndrea Bocelli 2:32£0.79
Listen15. La Bohème / Act 2 - "Viva Parpignol..." - "Una cuffietta a pizzi"Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2:10£0.79
Listen16. La Bohème / Act 2 - Allegri e un toast!Natale De Carolis 3:41£0.79
Listen17. La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo'" (Musetta's Waltz)Eva Mei 5:16£0.79
Listen18. La Bohème / Act 2 - Il conto?Andrea Bocelli 2:26£0.79


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Ohè, là, le guardie!" - "Aprite!"Pawel Janowski 3:47£0.79
Listen  2. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Sa dirmi, scusi"Barbara Frittoli 1:37£0.79
Listen  3. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Mimì!" - "Rodolfo m'ama e mi fugge"Paolo Gavanelli 5:30£0.79
Listen  4. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Marcello. Finalmente!"Andrea Bocelli 1:18£0.79
Listen  5. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Mimì è una civetta"Andrea Bocelli 1:27£0.79
Listen  6. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Mimì è tanto malata!"Andrea Bocelli 1:44£0.79
Listen  7. La Bohème / Act 3 - Mimi...di serra è fioreAndrea Bocelli 1:27£0.79
Listen  8. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Donde lieta uscì"Barbara Frittoli 3:13£0.79
Listen  9. La Bohème / Act 3 - "Dunque: è proprio finita!...Addio, dolce svegliare"Andrea Bocelli 6:34£0.79
Listen10. La Bohème / Act 4 - "In un coupé?"Paolo Gavanelli 1:30£0.79
Listen11. La Bohème / Act 4 - O Mimì, tu più non torniAndrea Bocelli 3:29£0.79
Listen12. La Bohème / Act 4 - Che ora sia?Andrea Bocelli 2:26£0.79
Listen13. La Bohème / Act 4 - "Gavotta"Mario Luperi 1:44£0.79
Listen14. La Bohème / Act 4 - "C'è Mimì..."Eva Mei 6:26£0.79
Listen15. La Bohème / Act 4 - "Vecchia zimarra, senti"Mario Luperi 3:49£0.79
Listen16. La Bohème / Act 4 - "Sono andati"Barbara Frittoli 5:20£0.79
Listen17. La Bohème / Act 4 - "Oh Dio! Mimì!"Andrea Bocelli 3:17£0.79
Listen18. La Bohème / Act 4 - "Che ha detto il medico?"Andrea Bocelli 3:10£0.79

On this CD:
  1. La bohème
    Composed by Giacomo Puccini
    Performed by Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
    with Barbara Frittoli, Andrea Bocelli, Eva Mei, Paolo Gavanelli, Natale de Carolis, Mario Luperi, Giorgio Gatti
    Conducted by Zubin Mehta

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Amazon.co.uk Review

This is star tenor Andrea Bocelli's first complete opera recording. Coming as he does from a more popular, less technically demanding school of performance, there is no denying his bravery in tackling one of the great tenor roles--especially when he must have been aware that we critics were waiting with open knives to welcome him. But we will just have to put our Schadenfreude back in its box for the next young hopeful, for he's actually not half bad. What Bocelli has in spades is a haunting vulnerability that translates with immediacy through the microphone, and this helps his Rodolfo along enormously. He also has unbelievably impressive high notes and if, like me, you are a sucker for displays of tenorial shamelessness, there is plenty to enjoy here. Rich-voiced Barbara Frittoli eats Mimì up for breakfast, and sounds as if she'll be trying Isolde for lunch--that is, she packs a punch, but lacks a certain softness. Eva Mei's Musetta is delightful, however; flighty, flirtatious and fickle. Zubin Mehta has the measure of the pathos but is less happy in the comedy, which drags along somewhat. This recording may not oust the best Bohèmes, but it need not hang its head beside them. --Warwick Thompson

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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect time to "discover" opera...., 15 Jun 2001
By Laurie Eckhout (Juneau, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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Puccini's, "LaBoheme" is a wonderful opera, both musically and by way of its storyline. If you are new to opera and a Bocelli fan, this is a perfect opportunity to hear this tenor at his BEST and become acquainted with what opera is all about. It is worth the effort. The entire ensemble makes this recording a gem. Read the libretto, follow the drama, get to know the characters. Andrea's beautiful voice is a standout within this cast of singers, but everyone is a pleasure to listen to. The familiar arias, "Che gelida manina" and "O soave fanciulla" alone, are worth the price of this cd. Bocelli's voice soars on its own and melds deliciously when teamed with others. An opera you can enjoy over and over again, in the comfort of your home or walking along a wetlands path. I highly recommend this CD to Bocelli fans. For those who are not yet familiar with Bocelli, I hope you too take this opportunity to discover the beauty and passion that so many admiring fans have succumbed to, upon hearing Andrea Bocelli sing. Enjoy~As for the "opera experts" who dismiss this recording (along with his other operatic pieces) and seem to relish tossing insults like confetti at Bocelli and the motives of any and all who chose to perform with him, I can't help but think their cynicism tends to cross the line into the realm of some sort of personal vendetta as opposed to a fair assessment of the works. I may be wrong.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Bocelli sings La Boheme, 12 Nov 2009
Bocelli first performed the role of Rodolfo - in February 1998 in Cagliai, the capital of Sardinia. Bocelli described it as a "dream come true" both critics and the public agreed with him for his performance was hailed as a triumphant success. Bocelli was described as being supremely suitable for the role by Lorenzo Marian, the director of the production he states that "Rodolfo was a poet, young, sincere, and ambitious but tender, and this is just like Bocelli himself - he described him as the most credible Rodolfo of recent years."

"Bocelli displays a sense of romance and melody that exalts the very essence of bohemian Rodolfo", quote from Franco Corelli, Bocelli's teacher and one of the greatest Rodolfos of the twentieth century himself.

Bocelli said that it was very important to perform an opera live on stage before recording it. He says "You learn so many necessary things. In the studio it's a different matter because you stop and start - and it's possible to look for a kind of perfection you can't get on stage. You never find it of course he adds but at least you can look for it!"

Bocelli has an innate musicianship that feels the inner rhythmic beat of the conductor and as soon as he feels him expanding a phrase, he follows it. Andrea never skips a beat, like some do in a performance.

La Boheme ranks with Carmen and La Traviata as one of the most performed pieces of music-drama ever written.

La Boheme tells the story of the doomed love of Rodolfo (a poet) and Mimi, (a seamstress.

In one of the most beautiful and powerful arias ever written Rodolfo tells Mimi of his life as a poet, of his ambitions and his attraction to her.

This is Bocelli at his most moving and shows what a deep thinker he is. He draws upon all his inner resources and one could cry at this aria it is so beautiful.

I cannot agree with some of the negative comments posted on La Boheme and would say to anyone who loves good music, listen to it and you will not be disappointed!!!

I wish I had bought it years ago!! Don't be put off by negative comments.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A wretched "Boheme" - Avoid this at all costs, 29 April 2001
By J. S. Calvert (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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La Boheme" has, for the most part, fared well on records. There are many classic recordings of this, the most frequently performed opera in the world: the Beecham with De los Angeles and Björling; the Votto with Callas and di Stefano; the Serafin with Tebaldi and Bergonzi; the Karajan with Freni and Pavarotti. Other recordings with various merits include the ones with Tucker and Moffo, Peerce and Albanese (under Toscaini), Domingo and Caballé, Gigli and Albanese, Scotto and Kraus, and more recently, Alagna and Gheorghiu.

This new turkey of a "Boheme," utterly lacking in any artistic (as opposed to crassly commercial) justification, is not even worthy to be mentioned in the same review as the foregoing, much less to be compared to them. To anyone who knows and cares about Puccini's music, this recording is not only unnecessary and indifensible, it is offensive. There is so much blame to go around that it is difficult to know where to begin, but let's start with the conductor, Mehta, who apparently cannot make up his mind whether he wants Puccini's poor opera to be pummelled to death with a sledgehammer or drowned in a slough of sentimental goo. Barbara Frittoli has a pleasant if undistinguished voice but she is a total cipher as Mimi, devoid of personality or individuality of timbre. The Marcello and Musetta are good, and if they don't erase memories of their more illustrious predecessors on disc, they do not embarass themselves, either. But then, who buys "Boheme" for the Marcello and Musetta?

So let's face it - the entire rationale for this recording is pop star and operatic tenor wannabe, Andrea Bocelli; the rest of the recording is just so much surplusage. And so how does the Great Bocelli fare as Rodolfo? To put it bluntly, the man may be a fine singer of pop music and folk songs, but in opera, he couldn't sing his way out of a paper bag. In spite of the blatant miking, which sounds like he was crooning directly into the microphone (no doubt he was), it is painfully obvious that Bocelli's modest resources are utterly inadequate to the demands of this role. High notes are lunged at and thin, ends of phrases are unsupported and often simply drop off, and he is incapable of any real dynamic variation, singing most of the role at an unvarying mezza forte. Most damaging of all, his voice is incapable of expanding and blooming to fill out Puccini's grand lyric phrases. All the digital wizardry in the world cannot turn Mr. Bocelli into what he is not, and what he manifestly and undeniably is not is an operatic tenor. The computer jockeys likewise cannot create in Bocelli any sense of Puccini style. As a previous reviewer observed, Bocelli sings this music like it was Andrew Lloyd Webber, with a soupy, crooning style totally unsuited to the music.

None of this, of course, is going to deter Mr. Bocelli's determined fans, 99% of whom have no point of reference for comparison, from buying this recording. And if their love affair with "Andrea" causes them to buy this recording and thereby to strike up an acquaintance with "La Boheme" and, possibly, with opera as a whole, I would be the first to celebrate - so long as they don't think that in listening to this recording they have really heard "La Boheme" or Puccini, or that they have heard any representative example of what a truly great operatic tenor sounds like.

This recording really stinks. Eees so bad, eees terrible. I'm giving it ones star anyway, for the secondary parts and for Puccini. He deserves better.

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