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Key facts
- Librettist
- Luigi Illica Giuseppe Giacosa
- Language
- Italian
- Based on
- Henri Murger 's Scènes de la vie de bohème
- Premiere
- 1 February 1896 ( 1896-02-01 ) , Teatro Regio , Turin
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Che gelida manina
- Genre
- opera
- Based on
- Scenes of Bohemian Life
- Screenwriter
- Henri Murger
- Composer
- Giacomo Puccini
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Librettist
- Luigi Illica
- Image
- La Bohème. musica di Puccini. G. Ricordi & C Editori affiche, AHohenstein 95.jpg
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- set in period
- 1830s
- different from
- La bohème
- Commons category
- La bohème
- date of first performance
- 1896-02-01
- title
- La Bohème
- inception
- 1896-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:La bohème
- number of parts of this work
- 4
- language of work or name
- Italian
- copyright status
- public domain
- location of first performance
- Teatro Regio
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- commissioned by
- Giulio Ricordi
- form of creative work
- opera
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Encyclopedic overview
La bohème (/ˌlɑː boʊˈɛm/ LAH boh-EM, Italian: [la boˈɛm]) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "la bohème") of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
The world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La bohème” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.