“LA BOHÈME : Puccini
Original Air Date: 03/17/1951
Cast: Cleva; Sayão, Di Stefano, Hunt, Valdengo, Siepi
Media: MOD Audio SID.18180317 Tags: Archive; 2018, Puccini
The oldest BOHEME in the MOD catalog, it’s Siepi’s debut MET season.
Although Sayao is Brazilian, she is certainly at one with the idiom and the luxury of Di Stefano, Valdengo, and Siepi among the Bohemians is pleasure indeed. Paul Jackson in his survey of Met broadcasts isn’t thrilled with Cleva, but listening to the MOoD is quite a dose of sunshine, and the sound for a 65 year old broadcast is quite clear. I haven’t heard a better Boheme in quite some time, yet Sirius gave it a 2 year rest. Welcome back.”