Next to Verdi's Aida, Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Aida, La Boheme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni -- the four operas most often performed -- constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world.
This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Boheme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several...