They remained with Puccini for his next three operas and probably his greatest successes: La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.

News of his death reached Rome during a performance of La bohème.

* La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( premiered at the Teatro Regio of Torino, 1 February 1896 )

This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

La bohème went out to 671 screens worldwide.

* La bohème ( 2009 )

* February 1 – The opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy.

As of 2007, the Metropolitan Opera alone has given more than 1, 100 performances of the opera, making it the second most frequently performed work by the company behind La bohème.

La bohème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger.

The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is the one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide.

Mimì's costume for act 1 of La bohème designed by Adolfo Hohenstein for the world premiere

According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on Henri Murger's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s.

The world première performance of La bohème took place in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

The first performance of La bohème outside Italy was at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 June 1896.

La bohème premiered in Germany at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin on 22 June 1897.

La bohème continued to gain international popularity throughout the early 20th century and the Opéra-Comique alone had already presented the opera one hundred times by 1903.

In 1930, Mascagni conducted La bohème in Torre del Lago, as a homage to Puccini, who had died in 1924.

It was not until Leoncavallo's La bohème was performed in 1897 in Venice that his talent obtained public confirmation.

Little or nothing from Leoncavallo's other operas is heard today, but the baritone arias from Zazà were great concert and recording favourites among baritones and Zazà as a whole is sometimes revived, as is his La bohème.

The tenor arias from La bohème remain recording favorites.

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