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- title:
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- La Boheme
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- year:
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- 2000 (November 7)
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- record company:
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- Sugar / Decca
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- order number
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- 464 060-2
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- It
is like a dream for me. When I was young La Bohème was
probably the first opera that I would listen to entirely. I
remember I liked to listen to La Bohème, but every time I
stopped almost until the end. It was so sad for me when Mimi
dies that I stopped it every time.
- My
goal is to bring this music to the people, especially the
young, so I chose a simple opera. La Bohème is very useful to
listen to, but not simple because La Bohème is very difficult
to perform.
- I
think that it is very important to perform opera on stage, but
in studio it is possible to looking for perfection. Of course
we cannot find it, the perfection, but we can be looking for
it. And I like to perform in studio, because I am very much
more tranquil.
- In
the beginning to perform an opera the first condition is to be able
to identify yourself to the character, and Rodolfo is a poet. He is
also a young man, who fall in love for a moment, so many simple
things of the life. Many times I have had the impression, that my
life it was close to his life. He is very contemporary, he does the
things that everyone today can do. He falls in love, he works, he
has many problems, because he has no money.
- Puccini
is a "musica dei sentimenti", the music of feelings, of
passion, of tears. I love very much his music, because it tears the
feelings from us.
- It
was a big dream for me, because there is a big cast and a great
conductor. Maestro Zubin has been really very close to me, before we
began the recording, and I am sure to have learned many things with
him.
- Everyone
knows, that Barbara is one of the best opera singers at the world in
this moment, and her voice is perfect and she is also a big musician.
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- Zubin
Mehta:
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know, to work with Andrea Bocelli is such a pleasure. First of
all he is an inquiring mind, he wants to know all the time
"why?", musically speaking. He is an extremely ardent
worker. Thank God he has the strength of Hercules. He came
completely prepared. He not only knew his part, he knew all
other parts… he is super prepared.
- I
must tell you, I am very pleased that the entire cast is Italian.
I don't want to be a racist about this, but the fact, that
Italian is pronounced in this version so perfectly is …even
the music sounds different.
- Barbara
Frittoli is probably today one of the finest Italian lady
singers with Cecilia Bartoli. (…) And for her also to sing the
first time with Andrea, side by side not knowing how they would
float in space together musically. And she did it from the first
moment without any problem, because Andrea is so flexible.
- I
am very happy for the outcome of this record. It was a pleasure
from the beginning to the end, from Rodolfo to the smallest
part.
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- Barbara
Frittoli:
- I
first met Andrea Bocelli at the airport. And we was leaving
for Israel for this La Bohème, for this record. It was nice
to work with Andrea, because he is very funny, very
sympathetic and he worked hard.
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courtesy of Universal Music, Hamburg, Germany
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