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
La púrpura de la rosa La púrpura de la rosa La púrpura de la rosa ("The Blood of the Rose") is an opera in one act, composed by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, the last great writer of the Spanish Golden Age. It is the first known opera to be composed and performed in the Americas and is Torrejón y Velasco's only surviving opera. "La púrpura de la rosa" was first performed in Lima in 1701 to celebrate the 18th birthday of Philip V and the first anniversary of his succession to the Spanish throne.