LA BOHÈME – PUCCINI
Presented on Dec 1, 3, 11, 13 at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin as part of the Dublin Grand Opera Society’s Winter Season
Veronica Dunne – Mimi
Charles Craig – Rodolfo
June Barton – Musetta
John Hauxvell – Marcello
James Pease – Colline
John Rhys Evans – Schaunard
Raymond Farrell – Benoit
Terence Conoley – Alcindoro
Harold Gray – Conductor
Ann Makower – Producer
Veronica Dunne was making her last appearances with the society in the winter season ’65, in her favourite role of Mimi in “La Boheme” and as Elvira in “Don Giovanni”. She remembers this “Boheme” with affection as the Rodolfo was Charles Craig, one of the best Rodolfos of the day. ‘Charles was fabulous and he did have a very impressive tenor voice, though I used to hate him for the way he used to get up to that top note and hold it in the love duet at the end of act one. I think he did it on purpose!’
(Extracted from “Love and Music: The Glorious History of the Dublin Grand Opera Society” by Gus Smith, 1998)
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