PUCCINI:LA BOHEME

Puccini's immortal classic opera La Boheme is captured on this DVD release of the 2005 Opernhaus Zurich production. Franz Welser-Most leads a superb cast in a performance that places emphasis on getting the opera's words across. In the humorous passages, artful juggling of the words is not only present in the libretto, but is also emphasized in the score. The Belgian director of this production, Philippe Sireuil, was heavily inspired by Aki Kaurismaki's film version of Henri Murger's novel Scenes de la vie de Boheme. Kaurismaki's great melancholic, sensitive, and totally unpretentious cinematic impressions led Sireuil to picture the state of a carefree poverty in which the mundane bohemian students live on the edge of society.