La Boheme (1961 film) workmanship." 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
19th-century French literature peasant stories of George Sand, and concerned itself with historical forces and periods, as in the work of historian Jules Michelet. The novels of Stendhal, including "The Red and the Black" and "The Charterhouse of Parma", address issues of their contemporary society while also using themes and characters derived from the romantic movement. Honoré de Balzac is the most prominent representative of 19th century realism in fiction. His "La Comédie humaine", a vast collection of nearly 100 novels, was the most ambitious scheme ever devised by a writer of fiction—nothing less than a complete contemporary history of his countrymen. Realism