La Boheme at OPERNHAUS BRATISLAVA/PRESSBURG – LA BOHèME

Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème
Opera in four acts (sung in Italian).

Giacomo Puccini, a master of effect in music drama and the most important exponent of Italian opera at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, found the subject of his ´La Bohème´(1896) in Louis Henri Murger´s humorous and sentimental novel Scenes de la vie de boheme about the lives of impecunious Parisian artists. With his librettists Giacoso and Illica he tells the stories of four friends who dream in their unheated garret of future successes. The focus of the narrative, however, is the love story of one of their number, the poet Rodolfo, and the sempstress Mimi. For a brief while fortune brings their lives together, only for them to be soon separated by a pitiless illness. In the end Mimi returns one last time to her love and the circle of his roistering companions, but all that remains is for them to part, for the thread of the heroine´s life has been irreparably severed.

Authors

• David Spencer
• Giacomo Puccini
• Giuseppe Giacosa
• Henri Murger
• Luigi Illica

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