Authors and composers who can tear passion to tatters are more numerous than those who have the light touch of high comedy. It chances that, as 'La Bohème' is laid in the Quartier Latin, the students quartet of Paris, where gayety and pathos touch elbows, it laughs as well as weeps. There is little to choose, however, between it, 'Tosca,' and 'Madama Butterfly.' Each deals successfully with its subject. 'La Bohème' is considered by many Puccinis finest score. Students, workgirls, citizens, shopkeepers, street venders, soldiers, waiters, boys, girls, etc. Savages Castle Square Opera Company, NovemMetropolitan Opera House, New York, in Italian, December 18 1901.ĪLCINDORO, a state councilor and follower of Musetta.ěass San Francisco, March, 1898, and Wallacks Theatre, New York, May 16, 1898, by a second-rate traveling organization, which called itself The Milan Royal Italian Opera Company of La Scala American Theatre, New York, in English, by Henry W. Covent Garden, London, in English, Octoin Italian, July 1, 1899.

Manchester, England, in English, as 'The Bohemians,' April 22, 1897. Produced, Teatro Reggio, Turin, February 1, 1896. Opera in four acts by Puccini words by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, founded on Henri Murgers book, La Vie de Bohème.

La boheme opera score