The scenery and lightning were especially designed for "La Bohème."

"[Conrad] Wilson mentions Manon Lescaut, third Puccini's opera, and your first score to really consolidate him as a successful composer. Just before of the premiere, in February 1893, at Teatro Regio in Turin, the author met in a café, in Milan, the Neapolitan Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), to whom he said that his next opera would be based in the novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème, by the French Henry Murger (1822-1861). Leoncavallo -- who just made success with 'I Pagliacci' -- was outraged." (Perpetuo)