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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