The acclaimed tenor Rolando Villazon had been scheduled to star in the role of Rodolfo, but persistent vocal problems forced him to withdraw. On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents a production of La Boheme, from Vienna, that produced a real life drama for one of its lead singers, the young American tenor Stephen Costello. His enduring, popular dramas are graced by appealing and believable characters whose feelings are portrayed so deeply and so vividly that, as we look on, their emotions soon become ours as well, and their heartbreaks seem as wrenching as our own. Regardless of his methods, Puccini mastered the unique and mystifying synthesis of music, drama and stagecraft that only opera can deliver, and with powerful results. By comparison, some say, Puccini's dramas seem overly simple and straightforward.īut that conclusion itself may also be too simple. And it would be easy to argue that composers such as Mozart, Verdi and Wagner all produced operas far more complex and innovative than Puccini's - great operas that work on so many levels that they both invite analysis, and defy it. Certain critics have analyzed his music and his stories and concluded that his operas are too easily enjoyable, and maybe not intellectual enough, to justify Puccini's great success. The same is true of many other Puccini operas, which may be why the composer has always had his detractors. The characters are familiar, maybe even routine. Boheme is a drama of everyday events and common people.
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