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