La Boheme Composer Giacomo Puccini Librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Based On "Scènes de la vie de bohème" by Henri Mürger Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Music Center Pavilion Season 1965 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Piero Bellugi Stage Director(s) Lotfi Mansouri Designer George Jenkins Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Rodolfo, a poet Sandor Konya Marcello, a painter Raymond Wolansky Colline, a philosopher Joshua Hecht Schaunard, a musician Richard Fredricks Benoit, their landlord Andrew Foldi Mimì, a seamstress Renata Tebaldi Parpignol, a vendor of toys James Eitze Boy Robert Denebeim Musetta, a coquette Marie Collier Alcindoro, her admirer Howard Fried Customhouse Sergeant Winther Andersen Customhouse guard Colin Harvey Show Dates Sat, Nov 20 1965, 8pm Thu, Nov 25 1965, 8pm Time and Place Paris; about 1830 Scenes Act I -- Garret of the bohemians Act II -- A square in the Latin Quarter Act III -- A city gate Act IV -- Barret of the bohemians Acknowledgements The production of "La Bohème" was donated to the San Francisco Opera Association by the San Francisco Opera Guild in 1958 Notes San Francisco Boys Chorus Madi Bacon, Director