Mimi confronts him and they decide to stay together for a while longer. Rodolfo tells Marcello that they must part as she is too fickle but Marcello does not believe this and Rodolfo confesses that he fears Mimi's cough will get worse if she lives in poverty with him. Problems arise between the couple as Rodolfo pretends to be jealous and accuse Mimi of being unfaithful. A procession of soldiers marches by the cafe and the group of bohemians fall in behind them. The group charge their food and drink to Alcindoro's account. Musetta does her best to regain Marcello's attention, eventually sending Alcindoro away. Musetta, a former girlfriend of Marcello's, makes a noisy entrance with her wealthy new lover, Alcindoro. Rodolfo takes Mimi to the cafe and introduces her to his friends.

Rodolfo's candle is also blown out and in the dark they start talking about their dreams, beginning to fall in love. When Rodolfo's friends leave for a cafe, he remains behind to write, but is disturbed by a neighbour, Mimi, who is looking for a light for her candle. Unable to pay the rent they trick their landlord Benoit.

The artist Marcello and Rodolfo the writer and their friends try to keep warm and find enough money for food and rent. Rodolfo and Mimi meet and fall in love but poverty and illness drive them apart until the end where she dies tragically in his arms. It is centred around the garrets of struggling bohemians, where manuscripts are used as fuel to keep them warm and rent goes unpaid. Puccini's opera is a moving tale of young and tragic love set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 19th C. He made the recording 50 years after first conducting the opera at its premiere in Turin. Since its first performance in 1896 this opera has become one of the most frequently performed and is rarely absent from an opera house somewhere in the world. La bohème has the distinction of having the only recording of a Puccini opera by its original conductor Toscanini. La bohème is a very popular opera in 4 acts enjoyed around the world.La bohème was composed by Giacomo Puccini from an Italian libretto, written by Luigi Illica and Guiseppe Giacosa. LA BOHEME: ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR OPERAS

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