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| | Amazon.com: Puccini - La Boheme / Baz Luhrmann, The Australian Opera: Video: Cheryl Barker,David Hobson,Roger ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | This DVD of the legendary production of La Boheme, directed by a young Baz Luhrmann, was beautifully filmed in February 1993 by Geoffrey Nottage and is more like a musical drama than an opera, which is not surprising since Nottage was a leading TV drama director. |
 | | Hobson and Barker had sung Rodolfo and Mimi in a VSO country tour of Boheme in 1987, so were old hands in the roles when the new updated version was premiered by The Australian Opera in Sydney, July 1990. |
 | | Just what a strain it was for him singing Rodolfo was demonstrated when, night after night, the young poet's tears for his dead Mimi became - after the end of the opera - the uncontrollable sobbing of a young singer at the end of his emotional and physical tether. |
| www.amazon.com /Puccini-Boheme-Luhrmann-Australian-Opera/dp/6303608051 (2601 words) |
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