La Bohème (1965)

Directed by

Wilhelm Semmelroth

Genre

musical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

12

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a film version of Puccini's opera La Boheme. It was staged in a studio with singers lip-syncing to their own pre-recorded performances.

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What happens

La Bohème is a 1965 West German film production of the 1896 opera of the same name by Puccini, filmed in a Milan studio and recorded at the Munich Opera. The film director and producer and set designer was the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli; Herbert von Karajan conducted the chorus and orchestra of La Scala and was the artistic supervisor. This is not a stage live recording: the singers mime to their own pre-recordings. Deutsche Grammophon released the film for home media in analog VHS tape format in 1988 and in Digital Video Disc (DVD) format in 1996, 2002 and 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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