"Hal Shaper's La Bohème: Noir" Original Cast - Hal Shaper's La Bohème: Noir (Original Cast Recording)
Singer: "Hal Shaper's La Bohème: Noir" Original Cast
Title: Hal Shaper's La Bohème: Noir (Original Cast Recording)
Label: Prestige Elite Records Limited ‎– CDSGP9803
Type: 2 x CD, Album
Country:
Date of released: 1998
Category: Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Opera
Size MP3 zip: 1537 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1575 mb
Rating: 4.1✭
Format: MP3 VOC MMF AU WMA APE AUD MIDI FLAC

Tracklist

Acts 1 And 2
1-1 Painting Oom Paul 5:27
1-2 It Might Have Gone Right To The Top 3:55
1-3 It's Me... Whitey! 4:19
1-4 Good Luck, Good Health, Goodbye 1:52
1-5 Who'd Be A Writer 4:09
1-6 Dear Girl...Your Hand Is Frozen... 4:28
1-7 I Am Always Called Mimi 4:46
1-8 Hey There! "Dolfo!" 0:43
1-9 I Have Lived In The Darkness (Heart To Heart And Soul To Soul) 3:48
1-10 Soweto Street Scene 4:03
1-11 And Through My Veins... Songs Of Desire 3:43
1-12 Come On Boys... A Toast! 4:14
1-13 All Through My Life (Musetta's Waltz) 4:14
1-14 It's A Dog's Life 2:59
Acts 3 And 4
2-1 Aftermath Of June 16th Johannesburg 3:30
2-2 Do You Know The Café...? 5:59
2-3 Mimi And I Are Through 5:18
2-4 I'm Leaving 3:11
2-5 Goodbye To Kisses In The Morning 5:26
2-6 So What's The News? 1:52
2-7 Oh Mimi... I Will Remember You... 2:49
2-8 What Time Is It Now? (Prelude To A Duel) 6:09
2-9 It's So Good To Be With Friends 3:20
2-10 I Wasn't Sleeping (Mimi's Death) 8:11
2-11 Blessed Mother Mary 8:11
2-12 What's Going On? 4:34

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Prestige Elite Records Ltd.
  • Copyright (c) – St. James Music
  • Recorded At – NICO Opera House, Cape Town

Credits

  • Adapted By, Libretto By, Producer [Recording] – Hal Shaper
  • Conductor – Willie Waters
  • Directed By – Michael Williams
  • Engineer [Recording] – Alfred Rietman, Shaun O'Meara
  • Music By – Giacomo Puccini
  • Orchestra – The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra*
  • Performer – Agos Moahi, The Cape Town Opera Company, Fikile Mvinjelwa, Marcus Desando, Sibongile Mngoma, Thokozani Mkhize, Xolela Sixaba, Zwelilungile Sidloyi
  • Recording Supervisor – Donald Graham

Notes

Total time 103:39

Recorded live, December 1997.

In collaboration with the Oude Meester Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Full libretto included.

The text and spirit of this work is dedicated to the memory of Hector Peterson, in the name of all those whose lives were sacrificed in the great struggle and also to my friend, Jenny Kipling whose devotion to this work made it possible.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): 39471
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): TOC 39472
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 2Z05