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La Boheme (1961 film)

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La Boheme
Directed byAlan Burke
Distributed byABC
Release date
22 June 1961
Running time
106 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

La Boheme is a 1961 Australian TV play, a film of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It was directed by Alan Burke.

Cast

  • Valda Bagnall as Mimi
  • Rae Cocking
  • Alistair Duncan
  • John Faasen
  • Alan Light
  • Russell Smith
  • Neil Warren-Smith
  • John Young

Production

Alistair Duncan did not sing. His singing voice was provided by Raymond McDonald. Duncan also did this in Land of Smiles (1962).

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald thought "the unashamed but essentially domestic and intimate sentiment" of the opera "proved exceptionally congenial to television" and thought it had "a technical excellence in presentation that might serve as a model for future televised operas. The performers were reasonably efficient in mouthing to their own prerecorded singing.. There was little outstanding singing, but plenty of competent workmanship."[1]

References

  1. ^ "La Boheme on television". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 June 1961. p. 7.