Synopsis of

Puccini

La Bohème


Columbia University/New York City Opera Project
Fall 2001

 

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Giacomo Puccini (1856-1924)
opera
La Bohème (1896)
  • based on a story by Henri Murger: Scenes of the Bohemian Life [in French]
  • adapted as a libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa
  • music by Giacomo Puccini
  • the (important!) publisher was Giulio Ricordi.

For New York City Opera's own synopsis of the plot and action of La Bohème, click below.

SYNOPSIS OF PLOT (NYCO) 

THE SCORE:
If you would like to visit an Indiana University site to see pages of the score (1917 edition, voices with piano reduction), click here: score.

This link takes you to the Special Collection of the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman Conservatory of Music, and shows the title-pages of all the editions of La Bohème and eight other operas by Puccini, with bibliographical information.  

 

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