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La Bohème
La BohèmeMembers of the Dnipropetrovsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ukraine, in a 2012 performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème (1896).

La Bohème, Opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, on Feb. 1, 1896. The story, a sweetly tragic romance between seamstress Mimí and poet Rodolfo in 1830s Paris, was based on the episodic novel Scenes of Bohemian Life (1847–49) by French author Henri Murger. A success from the beginning, La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed of all operas. It marks Puccini’s emergence as a fully mature and original composer, and it contains some of the most memorable arias and musical scenes in opera.

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Giacomo Puccini
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Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, who virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end. His mature operas included La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (left incomplete). Puccini was the last