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The Italian public, however, loved it and the opera sold out at the box office. The critics didn't like it, and the opening-night crowd of dignitaries gave it a reception almost as chilly as Rodolfo's drafty garret. 1, 1896, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, with a young Arturo Toscanini conducting the orchestra. 'La Boheme' had its world premiere on Feb. “This is one of the few times that the singers get to play someone close to their age,” Lata said. (The Latin Quarter got its name, by the way, because students from the Sorbonne spoke only Latin around the neighborhood for several centuries.) Murger's writings introduced the word 'bohemian' into the common lexicon and helped turn Paris' Latin Quarter into the hip destination for free spirits and proto-beatniks throughout the late 19th century and into the 20th. Murger took a darkly humorous look at the ways he and his fellow impoverished pals tried to make money, stay warm, dodge the landlord and make great art that would change the world (if only someone would notice). Puccini set his opera on the writings of Henri Murger, whose 'Scenes de la vie de Boheme' memoir chronicled his days as a young starving artist in the Latin Quarter of Paris during the 1830s and '40s. “You would not believe how many times people tell me that ‘La Boheme’ is based on ‘Rent.’” 'But the music is much better in 'La Boheme' (than 'Rent'),' Lata said on Tuesday night. As Broadway fans know, Jonathan Larson's hit stage musical and movie 'Rent' was an update of 'La Boheme' with an AIDS theme and pop music.

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