Puccini: La Bohème
Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Licia Albanese (Mimì), Mario Sereni (Marcello), Laurel Hurley (Musetta), Norman Scott (Colline) & Clifford Harvuot (Schaunard)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers
Schippers's control of the ensembles is exemplary...[Albanese] is the most fragile Mimi I've ever heard...[Bergonzi] has absolute ease with Rodolfo's music...This thoroughly idiomatic performance...
Puccini: La Bohème
Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Licia Albanese (Mimì), Mario Sereni (Marcello), Laurel Hurley (Musetta), Norman Scott (Colline) & Clifford Harvuot (Schaunard)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers
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Schippers's control of the ensembles is exemplary...[Albanese] is the most fragile Mimi I've ever heard...[Bergonzi] has absolute ease with Rodolfo's music...This thoroughly idiomatic performance...
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Recording Date: February 15, 1958
Contents and tracklist
- Mario Sereni (baritone), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Norman Scott (bass), Metropolitan Opera, Clifford Harvuot (baritone), Ezio Flagello (bass), Licia Albanese (soprano), Robert Nagy (tenor), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Lorenzo Alvary (bass), Laurel Hurley (soprano), Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, Calvin Marsh (bass)
- Thomas Schippers
Act I: Questo Mar Rosso
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Pensier profondo!
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Legna! Sigari! Bordò!
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Si può! - Chi è là? - Benoit!
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Timido in gioventù
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Chi è là? - Scusi - Una donna!
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Che gelida manina!
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Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì
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Ehi! Rodolfo!
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O soave fanciulla
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Act II: Aranci, datteri! Caldi i marroni!
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Questa è Mimì
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Salame! - Parpignol, Parpignol
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Signorina Mimì
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Oh! - Essa! - Musetta!
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Quando me'n vo'
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Caro! - Fuori il danaro!
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Act III: Ohè, là, le guardie! Aprite!
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Sa dirmo, scusi, qual'è l'osteria
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Mimì... O buon Marcello, aiuto!
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Marcello, finalmente!
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Mimì è tanto malata!
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D'onde liete uscì
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Dunque è proprio finita!... Addio, dolce svelgliare
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Act IV: In un coupè?
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O Mimì, tu più non torni
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Che ora sia?
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"Gavotta - Minuetto - Pavanella" (The Quadrille)
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C'è Mimì
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Vecchia zimarra, senti
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Sono andati?
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Che ha detto il medico?
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Awards and reviews
March 2011
Schippers's control of the ensembles is exemplary...[Albanese] is the most fragile Mimi I've ever heard...[Bergonzi] has absolute ease with Rodolfo's music...This thoroughly idiomatic performance - filled with Italian singers steeped in the tradition - is, again, the kind one rarely hears nowadays, and it's highly recommended.
