I'm 67 and finally I'm discovering and enjoying operas. I watched and heard "La Boheme" last evening after reading about the opera's plot on Wikipedia and also a libretto. La Boheme sure did remind me of meeting my husband Steve (may he rest in peace) in college. We both put ourselves through college. He was passionate about writing. I studied art. We had pals studying the same or other artistic things, going through the same financial hardships, and we all were supportive of one another. Steve wasn't sure if he was good enough for me, so when he got his degree, he told me goodbye and drove across the state to go home. We all celebrated at a local bar when he returned to my college town (with a "care package" for me because I ran out of food money) and we got engaged. BTW - The beautiful singing and the acting really touched my heart! I truly saw Luciano Pavarotti as a young struggling student and Mirella Freni as a dying seamstress.
I'm 60 and i just subscribed last year to the Opera. I'm currently in the process of choosing my operas for season 24-25. It should take me about an hour and a half and it's fun to do !
Puccini is by far my favorite opera composer, and this is his masterpiece. I saw Pavarotti and Freni do this at the Met in 1963. I've never forgotten it. This is a wonderful presentation of the opera. Bravo!
I have had over 90% of my 88 years to enjoy Boheme-- I'm gratefully able to listen to hear this recording of Freni / Pavarottii every night .. sometime twice..Bravissimo Ultimate!!
Amo la Bohème...e con questi straordinari cantanti la amo molto di più .La lirica me l'ha fatta amare il mio papà che è stato il secondo flauto nell'orchestra di Santa Cecilia a Roma per 40anni .. Grazie di❤
I also love Annarita Taliento's intepretation of Musetta. I haven't find any other singer which manages to express all the complexity of this wonderful character as perfectly as she does: youth, love, desire, freedom...and in the finale, that compassion for her friend! it's just heart-breaking
Remarkable how Pavarotti's and Freni's age and experience come through and inform this interpretation of this opera that they performed so many times over the years. And their voices! Heavenly
I saw Freni & Pavoratti in Boheme at the Met. You could tell they grew up together. They had such a great rapport. You could almost see them transport themselves back to when they, like the characters were playing, were young.
There is no doubt that Pav was the greatest, his voice is just so distinct, the greatest of the greats I feel so priveliged to have heard him sing live in an opera house with not a microphone in sight many many times. Simply the best!
Freni, Pavarotti, ce sont 2 très grands artistes car ils jouent vraiment leur vie, ils ne sont jamais dépassés ni étrangers à ce que le chant demande à exprimer.
@@mistersmith1883 I do not think English is intrinsically unsuitable for Opera. "Dido and Aeneas' is my favourite baroque opera, and Britten has also composed fine works. PS I am a native Italian speaker
@@musettina6adina224 Wow!!! Thank you so much, it worth to know this. I think Freni was falling in love at performance of Faust, cannot help but carried away by the "devil". What a fine man, he deserves to be a honorary citizen!!! My favorite bass, maybe only Siepi be his competitor...
I saw Freni twice onstage as Mimi. Listen to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="76">1:16</a>:50, the way she caresses the phrase “senza rancor.” I saw Pav onstage as well in Boheme, where his Mimi was Renata Scotto, another great artist.
Me, too. My parents played it frequently after they got the record. I was 4 years old and learned some of the words and music, sang along with it many times. I cherish the words and music to this day, more than 60 years later.
Quelle magnifique Bohème ! Pour ma part une grande découverte celle d'Annarita Taliento, en sublime Musetta. Mirella Freni et Luciano Pavarotti sont juste incroyables. Très beau spectacle Merci
Ciao.. hello.. C'è l'ho en un Pen Drive usb da anni... Sono di Torino e vivo all'estero... Che emozioni.. Rivederla ognittanto é uno spettacolo di emozioni... Come il magnifico film con Anna Netrebko e Rolando Villazón... Una cascata di bellezza e armonia melodica.. Un saluto e grazie ancora per postarla... ❤🎉❤😂😢😢😮😅😂
merci pour cette magnifique representation! Pavarotti et Freni au sommet ,le reste de la distribution au top,direction d'orchestre superbe !j'ai pleuré a maintes reprises!😍😍
Acabo de verla por primera vez, en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, extraordinaria, lloré de principio a fin, Pucchini sabía como tocar las fibras de la emoción, QUE DISFRUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Recently, I watched a biography of Freni. As she said, she and Pavarotti had been in a same nursery in Modena, almost like twin siblings. Such an ancient friend each other. Pace!
Il mio papà è stato un amante...un intenditore della musica classica...delle opere. mi sono nutrita di queste meraviglie. Sono pochi giorni che non c'è più...io ascolto le sue musiche...le opere... è il mio modo per essere vicino a lui❤️
Credo che Dio a taluni uomini dovrebbe concedere il dono dell'immortalita' affinche' possano deliziare con la loro arte i palcoscenici delle mille generazioni dei comuni mortali. Se di tanto ci fermassimo ad ascoltare queste melodie attraverso gli autori e queste voci, e dessimo retta ai moti del cuore e dell'anima che esse generano, il mondo sarebbe gia' un meraviglioso paradiso.
💐💐💐Querida Alfonsina Maria.... El es inmortal. PAVAROTI Es Y SERA tema de estudio en las universidades mundiales y quedara para la eternidad al nivel de un Dios Romano. Mi llanto porque me quede con las ganas de verlo en vida actuar. 💐💐💐 Franchesca Alejandra🌾🌾
Il finale più bello mai scritto in un'opera. Musicalmente Puccini qui raggiunge il massimo esprimibile in qualsiasi opera, come interpretazione e complessità di scrittura.
Uno dei finali più belli, sicuramente, ma definirlo "il più bello" è un po’ eccessivo secondo me: ricordo Norma, Sansone e Dalila, Aida, Falstaff, Maestri cantori di Norimberga, Cavalleria Rusticana, Faust, Andrea Chenier e molti altri. 🙂
Strepitoso Tutti bravi !!! Tutti. Ho apprezzato anche una Musetta sfavillante, Annarita Taliento. Grazie per la condivisione. Una edizione splendida, imho.
@@stmicci3206 Wow, that means Luciano was 60, Mirella about to turn 61 and her husband 66! And yet they are much more convincing in the roles than the young, beautiful and thin-voiced kids in Luhrmann's Broadway version. Should be a lesson to today's opera directors and impresarios who complain about the so-called 'park and bark' productions of the past!
We had to pick an opera to listen to in Music and then write a summary of how we liked it for online home school. This is my teacher's favorite so I decided to listen to it.
You chose well ^^. This opera must be one of the greatest ever written. Pavarotti sings so well here with so much emotion and Freni is incredible to listen to.
What a fantastic cast! Thank you so much for the subtitles, too! I sogni e la speranza di Pavarotti mi hanno fatto piangere. Et mi sembra che anche lui si sia commosso fino alle lacrime. Grazie per la condivisione!
I’ll be honest. I came here after watching Salvatore Fischella’s Che gelida manina class video on his student, Andrew Owens. And seriously, I have no regrets. This is pure gold. I got interested into opera music. What a beautiful performance by this perfect cast. 🖤
Difícilmente podremos ver una Boheme, igual. Interpretación inmensa Mirella Freni, L. Pavarotti ... .Gran representación , espléndidamente conducción y puesta en escena.
Straordinaria coppia Freni e Pavarotti : 'che gelida manina' e 'mi chiamano Mimi'' mi hanno profondamente commosso. Grazie per la loro Arte e grazie per avere messo a disposizione di tutti questo video.
Much Gratitude for This Capolavoro !!! Bravissimi Tutti 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹Absolutely Magnificent Pavarotti , and Freni ❤️❤️💖💖😍😍😍😍🥲🥲🌹🌹🌺🇮🇹🌺Grazie Mille , Again 💔💔!
I love this opera and this performance. Balm for my soul. Mirella Freni is absolutely aweful soprano and a great actress as well. What honnest and deep touching moments when the two of them interact. I appreciate so much that loving and warm glances between them. What moment , and be grateful that this video exists. The interaction between artist and audience as well, straight appreciation without doubting without hesitating. Strange I cannot find kind of this warm loving quality in nowadays . Especially in this time not.
I'm through the first two acts. This is a great recording and a great staging. It's probably right in front of me, but I cannot see a date for this production. In my mind, I am comparing it to the von Karajan recording, ca. 1972. I want to say that the Torino production is earlier because the singing on the von Karajan seems more mature in vocal attack and dynamics. But I am not an opera expert. They are both marvelous, and, in addition to Pavarotti and Freni, this Musetta is terrific.
My breath! Thank you, forever, for this. Certainly, there is some stress on many top notes for Freni and Pavarotti; such beloved artists, the finest. You will NEVER hear this sung better.
@@Kjuken69 Oh, my! Thank you, and of course, opera lovers will always differ. That is one horrible recording for me, and it is the very first one I ever heard! It is only horrible for me because I think de los Angeles is one of the worst singers ever to open a mouth. I didn't know it then and enjoyed Amara and Bjoerling, am I correct? I didn't mind de los Angeles too much because I didn't know any better, and my beloved first teacher played it for me. Years later when I knew quite a bit about the art and science of singing I heard her in some art song recordings and shivered in agony. Then I heard some of the recordings. THEN I went back and tried to listen to the Boheme. I understand that she must have been a charming and endearing performer- but that sound! Tight, so often off pitch or at least not in the center. Such a thin, ugly sound with no roundness. Oh well, You are kind to suggest this recording. I have to stay away from her. If it helps- I cannot abide Callas, either! Ha! Thanks!
Verissimo.Un cast prestigioso e toccante, nella Bohème del Centenario A parità di merito con quella sublime - sempre Luciano e Mirella - diretti dal Mo Carlos Kleiber., regia di Zeffirelli. Non L ho trovata su RU-vid, era stata data a NY nel 1990. Un incanto, anche quella.
@@eugeniogentili1048 Va anche detto che Pavarotti e la Freni in questa versione erano entrambi a fine carriera, nonostante ciò le voci sono ancora potenti e limpide. Di certo non è la migliore Boheme di sempre ma visti gli interpreti e la reaoizzaziine va annoverata tra le migliori.
@@marcosantoro2848 La Tebaldi e' stata a mio avviso la miglior soprano lirico spinto di sempre, ha la stella Walk of Fame a Hollywood, copertina del Time nel 1958, compare in molte classifiche internazionali nei primi 3 posti tra le migliori soprano di tutti i tempi.
¡Qué maravilla! Todo te transporta, te hace olvidar lo cotidiano hasta llevarte al cielo: la música de Puccini, las voces y las interpretaciones de dos de los más grandes, Pavarotti y Freni...Gracias por subir el vídeo. Estas músicas ayudan a vivir
Is this from the famous Pavarotti-Freni televised performance from 1977? An opera friend and I watched it. The performance broke new ground for delivering opera to a wider public, and oh, how beautifully it succeeded! Sound and visual clarity were primitive by today’s standards, but just as the Saturday Met broadcasts were crucial to listeners 40 years earlier, so this tv production was to us. I prefer the Bjoeling-de Los Angeles recording, but no matter. This is what stellar casting, brilliant singing, irresistible emotion is all about. Thank you for posting. Simply wonderful.
Perfection. Great cast. Lucio Gallo also does a funny version of Gianni Schicchi playing the main role. As Mirella grew up with Luciano and was married to Nicolai Ghiarov this really makes it a one in a million version of a classic.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1380">23:00</a>-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1636">27:16</a> The performance of Pavarotti at this time was simply frustrating, think of him in the 60s and 70s, that was really a golden voice. A great talent who could not get rid of the fate of aging in the end!
C'est ce genre "d'exécution" qui m'a toujours repoussé à aimer cette œuvre, voir même me procurer un ennui profond. Jusqu'au moment où j'ai pu passer par la participation. Quelle découverte ! Une oeuvre géniale, d'une parfaite structure, détruite ici par le bon vouloir narcissique des chanteurs et un orchestre qui s'accomode de l'arbitraire.... Vraiment, il va falloir que l'on aborde ce répertoire avec l'exigence morale à hauteur de son génie, débarrassé des tics du bel canto d'une autre époque. Le public devrait être éduqué dans le respect d'une œuvre qui n'a rien à avoir avec le cirque, autre forme d'art qui impose par d'autres règles le respect
Qué belleza de ópera, por dios....nunca me canso de escucharla...es la ópera perfecta. Sólo tiene un error; no fue escrita por Verdi jajaja Pavarotti y Freni inolvidables... Grande Puccini!! VIVA V.E.R.D.I.
Puccini orquestaba mejor y más llamativo que Verdi, mejores melodías, más capacidad para tocar el corazón, más moderno y para abordar La Boheme, ésta ópera es indudable que fue mejor compositor que si Verdi la hubiera tocado... poniendo las cosas al revés Pucinni habría fracasado en generar obras estrictas como Verdi
