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Puccini: La Boheme(2010)
No synopsis for Puccini: La Boheme. For more about Puccini: La Boheme and the Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray release, see the Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray Review Starring: Roland Wood, Alfie Boe, Paul Putnins, David Stout, Simon Butteriss Directors: Robin Lough, Jonathan Miller Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray, Video QualityLa Bohème is offered on Blu-ray from Kultur and Warner Classics with a VC-1 encoded 1080i "live" image in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio. This is a rather tubercular presentation, so to speak, pallid and often colorless, hampered by director Miller's odd decision to play the bulk of the opera in near darkness. Unfortunately this Blu-ray doesn't offer superior black levels or decisive enough contrast to cut through the murkiness, and the result is a rather soft, muddy image that resembles an upconverted SD-DVD. On the plus side, once we do get a brightly lit scene and are offered medium range shots to close-ups, there's some wonderful detail and nicely variegated color. It's never eye-popping or incredibly robust, but it at least shows that under the proper conditions this is at least a decent, if not stellar, looking BD. Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray, Audio QualityKultur is still getting its feet wet in the Blu-ray line, and so we're offered a lossless stereo track via LPCM 2.0, but a lossy standard Dolby Digital 5.1. There's a noticeable extension of range in the LPCM 2.0, with Puccini's blistering brass and sumptuous strings sounding much more vibrant than in the strangely narrower sounding DD 5.1 mix. As noted above, Boe sometimes is lost in translation, so to speak, with the orchestra burying his solos. The rest of the singers cut through the orchestral mass quite easily and there are rarely any balance issues to report. The orchestra itself sounds marvelous, if the performance is certainly not going to make anyone's Top Ten lists. The 5.1 mix offers a decent amount of ambient hall reverb (from London's imposing Coliseum), but there's precious little surround activity and no really diverse directionality. If you check out this BD, stick with the LPCM 2.0 track for its more robust rendering of this iconic Puccini score. Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray, News and UpdatesNo related news posts for Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray yet. Puccini: La Boheme Blu-ray, Forum Discussions
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