``La Boheme'' Broadway Cast Recording Due Dec. 10 On DreamWorks Records; CD Will Accompany Baz Luhrmann's Theatrical Production of Puccini Classic.Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002 On Dec. 10 DreamWorks Records DreamWorks Records was an American record label active from 1996 to 2005. In 1996, six years after David Geffen sold Geffen Records to Mushroom Records, he joined Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg to form DreamWorks SKG, which included the subsidiary DreamWorks Records. will release the Broadway cast recording of Baz Luhrmann's theatrical production Noun 1. theatrical production - the production of a drama on the stage staging production - a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television; "have you seen the new production of Hamlet?" of "La Boheme," Puccini's beloved 1896 opera. Esteemed opera producer David Frost is producing "Original Broadway Cast Recording - La Boheme," with Sean Murphy serving as engineer. "Original Broadway Cast Recording - La Boheme" is currently being recorded at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, in Marin County, Calif. Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme," meanwhile, is now being staged at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco; it will open Dec. 8 at the Broadway Theatre in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The album will reflect the show in a unique arrangement that features three separate casts performing the principal roles of the poet Rodolfo and his fragile lover Mimi. The trio of casts is required by the punishing vocal demands of a Broadway schedule. Similarly, two sets of performers will play Musetta and Marcello. Selected from 3,000 hopefuls, the performers are an international collection of world-class singer-actors in their twenties (exceptionally young by traditional opera standards). They will be heard equally onstage and on the original Broadway cast recording. Mimi will be portrayed alternately by Lisa Hopkins, Wei Huang and Ekaterina Solovyeva; Rodolfo will be portrayed alternately by Alfred Boe, Jesus Garcia and David Miller. Musetta will be sung alternately by Jessica Comeau and Chloe Wright; Marcello will be sung alternately by Ben Davis and Eugene Brancoveanu. Many fans of Baz Luhrmann's movies -- 1992's "Strictly Ballroom," 1996's "Romeo + Juliet  The introduction of this article is too short.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, it should be expanded. " and 2001's Academy Award-winning "Moulin Rouge" -- do not know that he directed opera before turning to film. He first tackled Puccini's tragic tale of Parisian bohemians at the Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House Performing-arts centre on the harbour in Sydney, Australia. Its dynamic, imaginative design by Danish architect Jørn Utzon (b. 1918) won a competition in 1957 and brought Utzon international fame. in 1990 (when he was 28). The action of this "Boheme" also takes place in Paris, but the time is 1957 (instead of Puccini's 1830s setting). The production will be sung in the original Italian, with English surtitles. The music director is Constantine Kitsopoulos. Luhrmann told the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the : "What we're doing now is really the antithesis of what we were trying to do with `Moulin Rouge,' which was to theatricalize the·at·ri·cal·ize tr.v. the·at·ri·cal·ized, the·at·ri·cal·iz·ing, the·at·ri·cal·iz·es 1. To adapt to performance on the stage; dramatize: film -- to heighten the sense that you were watching something staged. With `Boheme' we wanted to de-theatricalize the production ... We want to make it accessible, clear." (Datebook date·book n. A notebook or calendar for listing appointments, events, and other work-related or social information. , Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2002). |
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