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
Spanish opera Manuel de Falla's "Atlàntida" (1962 posth.), Enrique Granados' one-act opera "Goyescas", Tomás Bretón's "La Dolores", and the English-language operas of Isaac Albéniz - "Merlin", "Henry Clifford" and "Pepita Jiménez" for London and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Manuel Garcia's Italian-language operas "L'amante astuto" ("The astute lover") and "La figlia dell' aria" ("The daughter of the air") had been performed in New York during the 19th Century but Spanish opera waited till the 20th Century. In the Americas operas include Alberto Ginastera's "Bomarzo," (New York 1967) and Mexican composer Daniel Catán's "Florencia en el Amazonas" (Houston 1996). Spanish opera Spanish opera