Robert Spano - Puccini: La Boheme

Telarc International and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra release a brilliant recording Puccini's much-loved opera, La Boheme. The two-disc recording features a full 88-page libretto. As even the casual opera fan knows, La Boheme is the story of friendship, love and loss in a community of bohemians in 19^th century Paris. For its time, the story was the antithesis of the usual elements of melodrama (intrigue, violence, jealous rage, assassinations, etc.). Instead, La Boheme is an intimate view of the intertwined lives of a colorful group of young individuals.