Libretto
Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica, after "Scènes de la vie de Bohème" by Henri Murger and Théodore Barrière
Premiere
1 February 1896, Turin (Teatro Regio)
Cast
MIMI (soprano)
MUSETTE (soprano)
RODOLFO (tenor)
MARCELLO (baritone)
SCHAUNARD (baritone)
COLLINE (bass)
PARPIGNOL (tenor)
BENOIT (bass)
ALCINDORO (bass)
CHORUS
students, working girls, bourgeois, shopkeepers, street vendors, soldiers, waiters, children
Place
Time
1830