La Boheme - Metropolitan Opera Libretto

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Music by - Giacomo Puccini, Libretto by -- Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, English version by - Ruth Martin and Thomas Martin

Published by -- G. Schirmer, (c) 1954, New York, vii Italian and English Text on 33 Facing Pages,10.4" X 6.8" X .2", 6 oz.

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"La Bohème, fourth opera by Puccini (1858-1924) was the composer's second operatic success, preceded by two failures. Success had first come to the composer when he was 35 years old with the premiere of Manon Lescaut in 1893. 

The first performance of La Bohème took place at the Teatro Regio in Turin on February 1, 1896, exactly three years after Manon Lescaut, in the same theater and under the same conductor, Arturo Toscanini, not yet 29 years of age. 

The opera is based on Scènes de la Vie de Bohème by the Parisian novelist, Henri Murger — sketches of Bohemian life in Paris which first appeared in the journal Le Corsair between 1847 and 1849. The libretto marks Puccini's first collaboration with two writers Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa who, under his relentless supervision, were also to furnish the texts for Tosca and Madama Butterfly. 

The opera was first performed in America by the Dal Conte company during a visit to Los Angeles in October 1897. It had its first performance at the Metro- politan Opera House in New York on December 26, 1900 with Melba as Mimi and Albert Seléza as Rodolfo."

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