La Bohème

"I love the little things, and I can and will only make the music of the little things if it is true, passionate and human, if it goes to the heart," Giacomo Puccini once confessed. True to this credo, in 1896 he chose Henri Murger's novel "Scènes de la vie de bohème" as the source, a story of small lives and small people: the fate of the seamstress Mimì, who is consumptive, lies at the centre of the plot.