Summary
THE first thing that struck me about this production, from the Chisinau National Opera through Ellen Kent and Opera International, was the youthfulness of the cast. They looked as though they really could be living through the days spent in their freezing attic, sharing whatever they had and always hoping Fate would propel them to fame and fortune.
Irina Vinogradova as Mimi is pretty and convincingly fragile with a pleasing vibrato in her voice and Ruslan Zinevych's Rodolfo swings between ecstatic declarations of love for her and cold indifference. The audience knows, of course, that he's so in love that he's prepared to let Mimi go rather than see her health deteriorate in their unheated room.See the full content of this document
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La Boheme, Sunderland Empire
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