La Boheme Composer Giacomo Puccini Librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Based On "Scènes de la vie de bohème" by Henri Mürger Company Spring Opera Location San Francisco, CA Venue War Memorial Opera House Season 1961 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Henry Lewis Stage Director(s) Matthew Farruggio Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Boys Chorus Director Madi Bacon Costumes Goldstein & Co. Cast Rodolfo, a poet George Shirley Marcello, a painter Hernan Pelayo Schaunard, a musician Richard Fredricks Colline, a philosopher Spiro Malas Benoît, a landlord David Giosso Mimì, an embroideress Lee Venora Parpignol Willis Frost Boy Walter Berlin Musetta, a grisette Luisa De Sett Alcindoro Robert Schmorr Customhouse Sergeant Colin Harvey Customhouse guard Winther Andersen Show Dates Fri, May 5 1961, 8pm Time and Place Paris, about 1830 Scenes Act I -- Garret of the bohemians Act II -- Square in the Latin quarter Act III -- A city gate Act IV -- Same as Act I Notes Spring Opera of San Francisco