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 Cuba at La Haya and Teatro Real de Madrid respectively. It is known that he worked on an opera with a Cuban theme called "Cristóbal Colón", which manuscript has been lost. Villate passed away in Paris. In 1891. Soon after he had started to compose a lyric drama called "Lucifer", from which some fragments have been preserved. We should mention Laureano Fuentes Matons, Hubert de Blanck and Ignacio Cervantes among the Cuban opera composers from the 19th century. Laureano Fuentes Matons was born on July 3, 1825 in Santiago de Cuba and studied with Juan París, Hierrezuelo and Casamitjana. He composed