La Bohème
La Bohème (or La bohème) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa,
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The original text
Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
Translations and adaptations
Rent, the musical by Jonathan Larson, is loosely based on Puccini's opera. See separate entry on Rent.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.
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