After the reception to last week’s post, no more drowned queens for you! Back to basics, but with a twist: this week’s feature is La bohème, but not the one you’re used to: does the name Leoncavallo ring a bell? Hopefully, rare as it may be (although I saw two different productions in Wien and Praha within one year), it will fall on your collective delicate ears with more grace than Vanda. And if not, no fear: Puccini’s version will soon be available again.
Ruggiero Leoncavallo: La bohème
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Marco Guidarini, conductor
Theater an der Wien
02 August 2002
Mimì – Juanita Lascarro
Rodolfo – Vittorio Vitelli
Musette – Katja Lytting
Marcello – Mikhail Davidoff
Schaunard – Urban Malmberg
Colline – Luis Ledesma
Gaudenzio – Anthony Mee
Barbemuche – Steven Gallop
Visconte Paolo – Luis Ledesma
Eufemia – Adrineh Simonian
Durand – Anthony Mee
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
