Karajan conducts Franco Zeffirelli's La Bohème
Opera

Karajan conducts Franco Zeffirelli's La Bohème

With Mirella Freni

Performance date: 05/05/1965
Available until: 31/12/2023
105 Min

Herbert von Karajan conducts this 1965 film version of Puccini's classic opera La Bohème, which represented three firsts: the first music film conducted by Karajan, the first opera film produced by Unitel and the first major film production by Franco Zeffirelli. Based on Zeffirelli's 1963 production at La Scala, Milan, the lavish film quickly achieved status as a classic of the genre, with the young Mirella Freni leading a superb cast of some of the finest Italian singers of the period.

Soloists
Carlo Badioli (Bass-Baritone), Mirella Freni (Soprano), Gianni Maffeo (Baritone), Adriana Martino (Soprano), Rolando Panerai (Baritone), Gianni Raimondi (Tenor), Franco Ricciardi (Tenor), Ivo Vinco (Bass)
Ensembles
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Conductor
Herbert von Karajan