![]() Maestro Puccini, to whom Maestro Leoncavallo declared a few days ago that he was writing Bohème, has confessed that only on returning from Turin a few days ago did he have the idea of setting La Bohème and that he spoke of it to Illica and Giacosa, who he says have not yet finished the libretto. Fate, however, required that Puccini and Leoncavallo would soon meet at the De Cristoforis Gallery in Milan.Īnd more: “ Maestro Leoncavallo wishes to make known that he signed a contract for the new opera, and has since then been working on the music for that subject …. Nasi suggested to plot out the scenes himself and for the journalist to write the verses. Indeed, Puccini himself spoke convincingly to a lawyer, Carlo Nasi, and a journalist during a train trip from Turin to Milan, where he was to attend the debut of the latest opera by Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff. ![]() It seems that Puccini’s enthusiasm for the topic was born shortly after the first performance of Manon Lescaut (February 1st, 1893). Both Puccini and Ruggero Leoncavallo, the famous composer of Pagliacci, grew fond of the plot, enough to think about setting it to music.Īnd there it was: a real challenge, made up of many rivalries, a pinch of envy, and even some cheap shot. Its real fortunes came with the production of the drama “La vie de bohème” which encountered the favors of growing audiences around Europe. ![]() “Scènes de la vie de bohème” was published for the first time in the french magazine “Le Corsair-Satan”, very popular in the 1840s: they were a series of short stories with a quite feeble narrative arch, though still gripping. A defiance on La Bohème: Puccini vs Leoncavallo
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