- This opera was based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henry Murger. Published in 1851, the novel was a collection of stories Murger had previously published in serial form starting in 1846.1
- La bohème premiered on February 1, 1896, at the Teatro Regio in Turin.2
- Ruggero Leoncavallo also wanted to write an opera based on Murger’s book, and there was a dispute about whether he or Puccini had the right to adapt it. As it turns out, the book was in the public domain, so neither was able to prevent the other from writing a Bohème opera. Puccini finished his first, so just about nobody remembers Ruggero Leoncavallo’s La bohème.3
- Synopsis from The Metropolitan Opera
Sources
- Julian Budden, “Bohème, La (i),” Grove Music Online (2002), accessed March 26, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000900607.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
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