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.

* La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

And along Chicago's West Jackson Boulevard, La Salle Street, and around the Merchandise Mart Plaza there sit men who chart crop reports, who divide the number of reported lady-bugs by the number of reported green-bugs, and the number of hogs by the amount of corn.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

* 1992 La Peste directed by Luis Puenzo

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.

Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.

Isabella died in 1455 and Afonso married again ( although not recognized by the Papacy ) in 1475, this time to Joanna of Castile ( known as " La Beltraneja "), daughter of Henry IV of Castile and Joan of Portugal.

* Short story, The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race ( La Passion considérée comme course de côte ), has been widely circulated and imitated, notably by J. G.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

* 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

His most important compositions during this period were a symphony in D major, performed in the summer of 1776, and the oratorio La passione di Gesù Cristo with a text by Metastasio performed during Advent of 1776.

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

Starring Roberto Benigni as Ivo Salvini, a madcap poetic figure newly released from a mental institution, the character is a combination of La stradas Gelsomina, Pinocchio, and Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

In Italy, the American West as a dramatic setting for spectacles goes back at least as far as Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera La fanciulla del West ; it is sometimes considered to be the first spaghetti western.

* De Napoli, Giuseppe, La triade melodrammatica altamurana: Giacomo Tritto, Vincenzo Lavigna, Saverio Mercadante, Milan, 1952

It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946, with a memorable concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini — twice La Scala's principal conductor and an associate of the composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini — with a soprano solo by Renata Tebaldi, which created a sensation.

Lucca is the birthplace of composers Giacomo Puccini ( La Bohème and Madama Butterfly ), Nicalao Dorati, Francesco Geminiani, Gioseffo Guami, Luigi Boccherini, and Alfredo Catalani.

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Rigoletto premiered on 11 March 1851 to a sold out La Fenice as the first part of a double bill with Giacomo Panizza's ballet Faust.

** Marcello, La bohème ( Giacomo Puccini )

** Jack Rance, La fanciulla del West ( Giacomo Puccini )

An unpopular attempt at " improving " Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, Il crociato in Egitto, by interpolated music of his own, compelled Balfe to throw up his engagement at the theatre La Fenice in Venice.

* April 11 – first public performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, of Giacomo Puccini's La fanciulla del West, though the official opening of the new opera house would not take place until September 16.

* August – September – Maria Callas makes studio recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's, Il trovatore, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Giacomo Puccini's, La bohème, conducted by Antonino Votto, and Giuseppe Verdi's, Un ballo in maschera, also conducted by Votto, for EMI.

His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni.

He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca ( 1887 ) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well.

Some of the roles with which Gigli became particularly associated during this period included Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème and the title role in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, both of which he would later record in full.

Based on the opera, La bohème by Giacomo Puccini

He collaborated with Giacomo Meyerbeer on a number of occasions, and also provided the words for works by Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Daniel Auber ( La muette de Portici, Gustave III and others ), Fromental Halévy ( including La Juive, Guido et Ginevra, and Le Juif errant ), François-Adrien Boieldieu, Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini ( Le comte Ory ).

Murger's collection formed the basis of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème ( 1896 ).

* La Bohème ( Giacomo Puccini ): Tullio Serafin conducting the Orchestra dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with Carlo Bergonzi, Gianna D ' Angelo, Ettore Bastianini.

* Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini ): Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting the La Scala Theatre Orchestra, with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Florence are Italian President Alessandro Pertini ; Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini ; Italian political leaders Giorgio La Pira, Leonardo Domenici and Matteo Renzi ; astrophysicist Margherita Hack ; botanist Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli ; immunologist Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli ; philosopher Giacomo Marramao ; poets Margherita Guidacci and Mario Luzi.