La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
#1La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/23/09 at 9:10pm
Just as a heads up, the movie adaptation of the opera that inspired the Broadway musical Rent is being aired right now by many PBS member stations (like mine).
Updated On: 12/23/09 at 09:10 PM
#2re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/23/09 at 11:05pm
Having no prior knowledge of La Boheme, I went in with no expectations. I really ended up liking it. It seemed delightfully campy and the vocal performances were artfully refeshing after watching that "A Home for the Holidays" Christmas special that was on CBS.
And like a fool, I cried at the end of it.
#2re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/24/09 at 10:55am100 years from now La Boheme will still be performed and Rent will be mostly forgotten.
#3re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/24/09 at 10:59am
"100 years from now La Boheme will still be performed and Rent will be mostly forgotten."
Not true. 100 years from now, Rapp & Pascal will still be touring in Rent.
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#4re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/24/09 at 11:06am
"It seemed delightfully campy..."
Really? LA BOHEME played for delightful camp? How did they do that?
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#5re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/24/09 at 11:07am
LOL.
Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón are two of the best of the young generation of opera stars. They have great chemistry together and they make this version surprisingly hot.
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#6re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/24/09 at 5:12pmI always cry at "Mimi, chica? Donde estas? Tu mama."
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Posted: 12/25/09 at 7:03pmThe only remaining airings here were in the middle of the night, so I didn't get to see it. I love La Bohème. Grrr!
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#8re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/26/09 at 2:13am
"Really? LA BOHEME played for delightful camp?"
Oh, don't sound so shocked. How else do YOU interpret Pavarotti portraying a starving artist?!?
But, that's all I'll listen to as far as recordings of this warhorse go.
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#9re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/26/09 at 11:03am
I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus.
Which movie are you talking about? It's not the film that Jose Carreras made years ago, is it?
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#10re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/26/09 at 5:09pm
No--this new one from 2008, with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon. It was on PBS last week.
Trailer:
http://www.moviestrailer.org/la-boheme-movie-trailer.html
La Bohème (2008)
#11re: La Boheme: The Movie on PBS
Posted: 12/26/09 at 5:14pmCaught a few minutes of it the other night. Not terrible, but I'll wait until February when I can see Netrebko's Mimi in the flesh (opposite the divine Piotr Beczala, who can sing circles around Villazon).
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