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
Opera in Latin America work, such as in his operas "Il Guarany" and "Lo schiavo". The nineteenth-century opera "Guatimotzin" by Mexican composer Aniceto Ortega was the first conscious attempt to incorporate pre-Hispanic elements into the formal characteristics of opera. Other important 19th-century Mexican operas are "Agorante, rey de la Nubia" by Miguel Meneses (premiered during the commemorative festivities for the birthday of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico), "Pirro de Aragón" by Leonardo Canales, and "Keofar" by Felipe Villanueva. The operatic works of Melesio Morales are the most important in Mexico in the 19th century. His operas "Romeo y Julieta", "Ildegonda", "Gino Corsini", and "Cleopatra"