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BOHEME, LA (Bow-ehm’) (The Bohemians) (Jn Italian unless noted)
Text by Giacosa and Illica; music by Puccini. First produced at Turin, 1896. In English, as “‘ The Bohemians,” in London, 1897. In Italian at Covent Garden, 1899. First American production, November 28, 1899.
Puccini's Bohéme is an adaptation of part of Miirger’s La Vie Bohéme, which depicts life in the Quartier Latin, or the Students’ Quarter, in 1830. The principal characters in Puccini’s opera are the inseparable quartet described by Miirger, who with equal cheerful
ness defy the pangs of hunger and the landlord of their little garret. scree a BS:
PAINTED BY BALESTRIERI THE DEATH OF MIMI
BOHEME, LA—Continued
Marcel, a painter; Colline, a philosopher; and Schaunard, a musician, are four friends who occupy an attic in the Quartier Latin, where they live and work together. Improvident, reckless and careless, these happy-go-lucky Bohemians find a joy in merely living, being full of faith in themselves.
Rudolph makes the acquaintance of Mimi, a little flower-maker; Marcel meets the
Musetta, who plays fast and loose with him. Alternate quarrels and reconciliations fill the lives of these lovers, but the final separation ends with the sad death of Mimi, at the close of the opera. In the scenes of careless gaiety is interwoven a touch of pathos; and the music is in turn lively and tender, with a haunting sweetness that is most fascinating.
The principal parts of the opera have been recorded by the Victor, and the senes is a splendid one, the singers including Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Gluck, McCormack, etc.
ACT I—GARRET OF THE BOHEMIANS
Questo mar rosso (This Red Sea) de Tura and Badini/ 88233) 123.00 Racconto di Rodolfo (Rudolph’s Narrative) Enrico Caruso 88002!/12 3.00 Racconto di Rodolfo (Rudolph’s Narrative) Constantino|74106)| 12 1.50 Racconto di Rodolfo (Rudolph’s Narrative) John McCormack 74222 12 1.50 Racconto di Rodolfo (Rudolph’s Narrative) Herman Jadlowker| 76023) 12 2.00 Racconto di Rodolfo (Rudolph’s Narrative) Giovanni Martinelli,74381/12 1.50 Rudolph's Narrative (Thy Hands are Frozen) Jn English Evan Williams|/74129/12 1.50 Mi chiamano Mimi (My Name is Mimi) Geraldine Farrar 88413) 12 3.00 Mi chiamano Mimi (My Name is Mimi) Nellie Melba’ 8807412 3.00 Mi chiamano Mimi (My Name is Mimi) Alice Nielsen) 74062) 12 1.50 Michiamano Mimi (My Name is Mimi) Lucrezia Bori 88475) 12 3.00 O soave fanciulla (Thou Sweetest Maiden) Bori-McCormack 87512) 10 3.00 O soave fanciulla (Thou Sweetest Maiden) » Melba and Caruso|95200 12,5.00 ACT II—rTerRACE OF THE CAFE MOMUS, PARIS Musetta Waltz Gina Viafora'64085 10 1.00 Musetta Waltz (Whistling) Gialdini and Carmen Selection—Xylophone—Reitz 16892110) .75