La Scala | Shows | Buy Tickets | Le nozze di Figaro | La Dame Aux Camelias | Die Lustige Witwe | La Boheme La Bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger. The world première performance was in Turin in 1896. In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a performance of it on US radio, and eventually released on record. It is the only recording of a Puccini opera by its original conductor. This site is independently owned and operated and in no way affiliated to any event, venue, artist or production company.