La Boheme

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Giacomo Puccini

La Boheme

Giacomo Puccini

La Boheme

  • Instrumentation Soloists, Mixed Choir and Orchestra
  • Composer Giacomo Puccini
  • Edition Score
  • Publisher Ricordi
  • Order no. ERPR1351
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  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Romantic)
  • ISBN: 9780634019432
  • ISMN: 9790041913513
The premiere of "La Bohème" took place at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 1 February 1896. Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based their libretto for this opera on "Scènes de la vie de Bohème" by Henry Murger. It took Puccini only a fewmonths to complete a score brimming with wonderful melodic invention and orchestrational genius. The music is a surprisingly supple and sensitive medium for depicting a variety of emotions that animate the young: reckless living full of stop-gapexpedients, erratic feelings and sudden explosions of noble sentiment, the driving ambitions of one's art. Puccini's musical imagery illuminates the different moments and moods of the story with a delicate yet intense lyrical quality; just as therapid decline and death of Mimì, subtle yet invincible, remind us of the universal reality that all things must inevitably come to an end. On the cover: 'Al Quartiere Latino', sketch by Riccardo Salvadori, as a variation on the sketch by Adolf Hohenstein for the world premiere in Turin of "Bohème", 1896.