La Boheme
Parisian artists' opera
La Bohème is an 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini, set among struggling artists in Paris.
The title means "the bohemian life" in French, referring to unconventional, impoverished artistic communities.
The opera's story of doomed love between a poet and a seamstress has made it one of the most performed operas worldwide: We saw La Bohème at the Met.
- garretSmall rooftop living space
- ariaOperatic solo piece
- songMusical piece with words
- librettoOpera's written words
- ParisFrance's chief city
Latin Quarter · love · cough · cold hands · candle · music · Montmartre · novel · café culture · Puccini · opera house · fleeting moments · sacrifice · poverty · starving artist · tuberculosis · Mimi · dying breath
- performing artsacting, dance, music, drama, theater
- ParisEiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Seine, Montmartre
- tragic romanceRomeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Wuthering Heights, doomed lovers, star-crossed
- operaopera, aria, arias, soprano, tenor
- Italian MusicVerdi, Puccini, Vivaldi, Rossini, Pavarotti
- opera termscoloratura, soubrette, bel canto, aria, libretto