We all get ROH screenings well after the original date so I guess opera films take their crossing the ocean both ways. Overall, I think this screening may have been more ‘relay’ than ‘live’ as the performance was filmed some time around July last year in Sydney. Hi Mark, glad to read that Australian work is making its way to London. For further information, including a list of cinema venues in the UK, click here. The cinema screening dates for Opera Australia’s season are: La Bohème 24th April Lakmé 29th May Don Giovanni 26th June La Traviata 31st July Turandot 28th August Die tote Stadt 27th November and then in 2013 The Pearl Fishers 29th January and Madama Butterfly 26th March. In the cinema I was in the sound was too dry and bright, and Rodolfo’s voice did not show enough depth, but the other voices came over more successfully and the orchestra under the direction of Shao-Chia Lü gave a fine rendering of Puccini’s score, bringing out the emotive power of the music. Very strange.Īll in all, however, this staging gives a fine insight into the opera, with the four bohemians interacting very well together, and David Parkin as Colline giving a fine account of his beloved coat. This was particularly odd in Act IV when it’s Mimi who is dying, and I wondered why he was laughing at some points. And in the close-ups Ji-Min Park as Rodolfo was covered in perspiration, which made him look ill. It’s also supposed to be rather dark, yet in the cinema screening I saw - which was not the live relay that will be broadcast on April 24 - the lighting was over-bright, rendering the key all too visible. But in Act I it is supposed to be very cold, yet Rodolfo was in shirt-sleeves and Mimi wore an elegant crochet shawl that would not have kept her very warm. The bohemians’ garret is a huge room with a very high ceiling, light entering from windows at the top, and plenty of room for clowning around in Acts I and IV.
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