Premiere of La bohème

Date: February 1, 1896 • Location: Turin, Italy

La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.