The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's La Boheme: Libretto, Background and Photos (Amadeus)

Giacosa, Giuseppe

ISBN 10: 1574674447 / ISBN 13: 9781574674446

Published by Amadeus, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's La Boheme: Libretto, Background and Photos (Amadeus)
• Publisher: Amadeus
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574674447
• ISBN 13: 9781574674446
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

There's a reason La Bohème has been staged at the Met more often than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of new young love and the anguish that comes with loss and death. La Bohème, the passionate and timeless story of love among impoverished young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world's most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression (even on those new to opera) and to reveal unexpected treasures after dozens of hearings. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things (a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor) that make up our everyday lives. This touching story of tenderness and tragedy never fails to move audiences and melt hearts.

This gorgeous souvenir libretto includes extensive background notes and photos from productions through the years.

About the Author

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini based on the Victorien Sardou's dramatic play "La Tosca". Tosca is dramatic and beautiful. To this day it is one of the most frequently preformed operas.

Henri Murger (1822-1861) wrote for magazines and newspapers and authored several books of fiction but is remembered today only for this novel of artistic life in nineteenth-century Paris.