La Bohème’s moving story of tragic young love and its colorful Parisian setting have been seen in five different Met productions, perhaps most memorably in Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary staging. For the next 58 years, the opera never left the repertoire, and since then there have only been a handful of seasons when it was not performed-making it the most frequently staged work in the history of our company. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.įour years after its 1896 world premiere in Turin, the Met first presented La Bohème while on tour in Los Angeles, with the great Nellie Melba as Mimì.

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