Recorded live from the Sydney Opera House, this Australian Opera production of Puccini´s perennial favourite was staged by the creative team who made the hit film Strictly Ballroom - director Baz Luhrmann and designers Catherine Martin and Bill Marron. They have crafted a compelling and artful reworking of the opera, using the post-war privations of 1950s Paris as a convincing setting, and capturing, above all else, the youthfulness and intensity of the story with a raw sincerity. This Bohème throbs with passion and its vivid feeling of reality serves to make the story even more poignant ´Luhrmann is not afraid as a director to embrace the much-derided concepts of love and romance and run with them. Rather than overly complicate matters, he exposes and then celebrates the simplicity of the material.´ Star Observer Running Time 113 min Menu languages GB, D, F, SP Subtitle languages I, GB, D, F, SP Picture Format 43 Sound Format PCM Stereo Region Code 2, 5 PAL