A summer performance of a wintry treat is this week’s bonbon from the Mike Richter collection, this time from his “Opera from Munich” CD-ROM, AE204. It’s a live, in-house performance of La bohème under the magical baton of Carlos Kleiber, with a couple of guest artists named Freni and Pavarotti.

Puccini: La bohème
Nationaltheater, 16 July 1983

Mimi – Mirella Freni
Rodolfo – Luciano Pavarotti
Marcello – Wolfgang Brendel
Musetta – Margherita Guglielmi
Schaunard – John Janssen
Colline – Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Benoit – Claudio Giombi
Alcindoro – Gerhard Auer
Parpignol – Georg Paskuda

Carlos Kleiber, conductor