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ComposerPuccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
PeriodRomantic
LibrettistLuigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
Year1896
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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VeronaLa bohème

Fondazione Arena di Verona
Puccini: La bohème
Francesco Lanzillotta; Alfonso Signorini; Arena di Verona Corps de Ballet; Juan Guillermo Nova; Arena di Verona Orchestra; Arena di Verona Chorus; Yusif Eyvazov

VoutezacDiva Opera - La bohème

Festival de la Vézère
Puccini: La bohème
Bryan Evans; Diva Opera

ClergouxDiva Opera - La bohème

Festival de la Vézère
Puccini: La bohème
Bryan Evans; Diva Opera
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Livermore’s successful Bohème opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Carolina López Moreno (Mimì) © Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Originally staged at the Caracalla Baths in 2014, Davide Livermore’s production comes in from the cold. 
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A holiday Bohème: Puccini, Zeffirelli and tradition in Vienna

Juan Diego Flórez (Rodolfo) © Wiener Staatsoper | Stephan Brückler

Giacomo Sagripanti conducts a luxuriant reading with a cast anchored by Juan Diego Flórez and Nicole Car, in Zeffirelli’s familiar, generous, unabashedly emotional production. 

***11
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La bohème as escapist epic at LA Opera

Janai Brugger (Mimì) and Oreste Cosimo (Rodolfo) © Cory Weaver
Puccini's tale of bohemian love lives on at the Dorothy Chandler as LA Opera launches its 2025-26 season. 
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ParisLa bohèmeNew production

© Bernd Uhlig | OnP
Puccini: La bohème
Gustavo Dudamel; Claus Guth; Opéra national de Paris; Étienne Pluss; Eva Dessecker; Fabrice Kebour; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

RigaLa bohème

© Kristaps Kalns
Puccini: La bohème
Arvo Volmer; Laura; Latvian National Opera; Fabien Lédé; Fyodor Podgorny
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A journey through Puccini’s Tuscany

View over Lucca, and towers of San Paolino and Torre delle Ore © R. Giomi
Puccini, who died 100 years ago this year, had a lasting fondness for his native Tuscany – and despite his wealth and fame in later life never moved far from his birthplace in Lucca.

Bachtrack top ten: Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini in 1900 © Public domain
Giacomo Puccini knew how to pull the heartstrings in his music. He made his soprano characters suffer... but also composed some of his best music for them.