La Boheme: An Opera in Four Acts

51 pp. "La boheme is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scenes de la vie de boheme by Henri Murger. The world premiere performance of La boheme was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini. Since then La boheme has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas internationally. According to Opera America, it is the second most frequently performed opera in the United States, just behind another Puccini opera, Madama Butterfly."