La Bohème is based on the novel Scenes de la vie de boheme, a collection of short stories which describes the life of young bohemians living in Paris in the 1840s, written by Henry Murger. Illica and Giacosa formed the opera, like the play, around the relationship between Mimi and Rodolfo. Interestingly, in the original play, there are two women, Mimi and Francine, whose personalities and journeys through the play are combined to form the Mimi that we know in the opera. Illica and Giacosa treated the play as a starting point, mainly taking characters and a few plot points, then created
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