La Boheme (1961 film) La Boheme (1961 film) La Boheme is a 1961 Australian TV play, a film of Giacomo Puccini's opera "La bohème". It was directed by Alan Burke. Alistair Duncan did not sing. His singing voice was provided by Raymond McDonald. The "Sydney Morning Herald" thought "the unashamed but essentially domestic and intimate sentiment" of the opera "proved exceptionally congenial to television" and thought it had "a technical excellence in presentation that might serve as a model for future televised operas. The performers were reasonably efficient in mouthing to their own prerecorded singing.. There was little outstanding singing, but plenty of competent
China National Opera Oriental Art Centre, supplies opera singers to television stations and for concert performances, and tours abroad. CNOH staged La Boheme in Beijing in 1986 with Luciano Pavarotti and later Turandot in the Forbidden City. Then in June 2001 came the successful Three Tenors Forbidden City Concert. In 2009, CNOH staged Turandot with Zhang Yimou in the "Bird's Nest" Beijing National Stadium, and again in the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taiwan. CNOH has toured abroad since its conception, first in socialist countries, then in the west. In 1988 CNOH was guest company at the Savonlinna Opera Festival performing Carmen, Madam