Puccini’s Tosca opera is based on: Play La Tosca written by Victorien Sardou.Ĭesare Angelotti, a political refugee, is in hiding at his friend’s, the painter Mario Cavaradossi in a church.

Everyone wants to help, but to no avail Mimi dies Rodolphos’ arms. Another few months later (just as the artists are joking about their poverty) Musetta crashes into the apartment with the terminally ill Mimi. Months later, Rudolpho leaves Mimi because he believes he isn’t able to help the sick girl without any money. Musetta – Marcello’s former lover – enters the restaurant with a rich, older lover but leaves him sitting and disappears with Marcello. They fall in love and follow the friends to the cafe.

Mimi, the pretty but sick neighbor, asks for a light for her candle. Rudolpho is delayed and there is a knock at the door. Only Schaunard has any money and invites the others to a meal in a cafe. Poet Rodolpho, painter Marcello and musician and philosopher Colline Schaunard are shivering in their apartment on Christmas Eve. Puccini’s La bohème opera is based on: Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de bohème.Once there, Manon swears her eternal love for him but dies of thirst. Des Grieux follows her to America, where both abscond into the desert. Before they know it, the house is surrounded, she is arrested and exiled to an American penal colony. The student wants to flee but Manon doesn’t want to leave her jewelry behind. Geronte is jealous and threatens to have him arrested. Des Grieux follows her back and she falls into his arms. However, her brother brings her back to Geronte who showers her with gifts. Des Grieux finds out and persuades Manon to flee with him to Paris where they live together in a humble dwelling.

The tax farmer Geronte is also in love with her and organizes a rendezvous. Student Des Grieux is in love with Manon Lescaut but her father wants her to go to the convent. Puccini’s Manon Lescaut opera is based on: Abbé Prévost’s novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut.Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica plus Ruggero Leoncavallo, Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, publisher Giulio Ricordi and Puccini also contributed. Famous Puccini operas plot outlines, key facts and opera trivia 🎭

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