Her vivacity was matched by seamless soaring vocals in the treasured Musetta’s Waltz and a keen parlance as well as vibrant and spirited tussles with other characters. Julie Lea Goodwin’s Musetta burst arrestingly onto the stage at the glittering Café Momus in Act Two. The sentiment and style hits the mark even almost two centuries after its creation with believable and candid stage presence and character interaction. There is admirable momentum here, with genuine emotion, humour and joy finely chiselled. Shaun Rennie’s revival direction has a brilliant economy and masters the expressive demands and need for effective pacing of the story as created by Puccini. As well as a gripping musical assault by orchestra, soloists, children and adult chorus ensemble, this glimpse into the hearts of the bohemian life is attractively wrapped to hurl us back in time-not as far back as Puccini’s original opera, but with the reality of Puccini’s verismo vision and the timelessnes of live and kindness of friends capably realised.Ībove : Soprano Valeria Sepe performed the role of Mimi Led commandingly from the pit by conductor Lorenzo Passerini, we heard the Opera Australia Orchestra respond with exciting richness of tone and fullness of support over which the vocal outbursts gilded the texture and completed some very rewardingly dense soundscapes.Ĭostumes by Julie Lynch and sets by Brian Thompson endure to still dazzle us in this production revival. All this meaty rendition comes attractively packaged as Gale Edwardes’ production swathed in sumptuous 1930’s Berlin gloss is presented in revival with great directness and believable boldness. Puccini’s operatic style, carrying us beautifully along with sound effect, dialogue dripping in atmospheric accompaniment and more expanded stunning gesture is welcome fare for our hungry live opera deprived ears. Musically this was a very successful presentation. The audience ravished the chance to be back in the theatre live to delve once more into this well- packaged Puccini drama. This tale of bohemia and the network of suffering characters is stuff of operatic stage legend. It draws us completely in to the realism of character and predicament of another time. It’s tale of illness, hope, support and kindness mirrors some of our current world predicament. Puccini’s loved work opens the 2022 Opera Australia Sydney Season in passionate verismo style. Above: Kang Wang gave a passionate performace as Rodolfo.
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