GREAT PERFORMANCES
La Bohème, The Movie
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM
The pairing of one of the most beloved operas of all time with a contemporary “dream team†of singers sets the stage for a silver screen romantic blockbuster. Released theatrically in October, the lush new film version of La Bohème makes its U.S. television debut on Great Performances during the holiday season – a perfect fit, given the first two acts of the plot unfold on Christmas Eve. “My principal motivation in filming the opera ‘La Bohème’ is to set a memorial to the singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón,†says Austrian director Robert Dornhelm, adding: “I think that this film, this music, this story will beguile not just opera lovers.†Great Performances viewers will remember Netrebko and Villazón from last season’s telecast of Three Stars in Vienna with superstar tenor Placido Domingo, as well as Netrebko’s starring appearances on Great Performances at the Met (I Puritani, Roméo et Juliette, and Lucia di Lammermoor).
