1908 ORQUESTA MEXICANA DE CURTI La Boheme GIACOMO PUCCIN - 78 RPM Record

Orquesta Mexicana De Curti – La Boheme
Written by Giacomo Puccin
78 RPM audio transfer from Bowness Arts' collection of vintage records

Label: Columbia A137 (US)
Side A: Damrosch Orchestra – Toreador Song
Side B: Orquesta Mexicana De Curti – La Boheme
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: 1908
Genre: Classical
Other side of this record: Damrosch Orchestra – Toreador Song
   • 1903 DAMROSCH ORCHESTRA Toreador Song...  

La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger.[2] The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "la bohème") of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late-Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-19th-century Romantic Italian opera he later developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents. His most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (1924).