{"id":914,"date":"2009-08-01T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=914"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:24:28","slug":"the-1st-edition-of-puccinis-la-boheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"The 1st Edition of Puccini&#8217;s La Boheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows and loves La Boheme.\u00a0 It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/opera.stanford.edu\/misc\/Dornic_survey.html\">second most performed opera<\/a> in the entire world (in 1994), a statistic that is likely to hold true today, and also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operaamerica.org\/content\/audiences\/Programs\/Cornerstones\/index.shtml\">second most commonly produced opera<\/a> in the US.\u00a0 Listeners are treated to aria after aria of incredible melodies, key changes and colors.<\/p>\n<p>The general story is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parisian Hipster Boy (PHB) meets Parisian Hipster Girl (PHG)<\/li>\n<li>PHB and PHG fall in love.<\/li>\n<li>PHB and PHG break up<\/li>\n<li>PHG dies.<\/li>\n<li>PHB cries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know I am leaving out Marcello and Musetta, but really they are supporting rolls.\u00a0 If you want to find out more about the opera, head over to wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_boh%C3%A8me\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t0-1sQ0XOGE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t0-1sQ0XOGE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Warning, Huge File!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Puccini_La_Boheme.pdf\">La Boheme Score<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows and loves La Boheme. It was the second most performed opera in the entire world (in 1994), a statistic that is likely to hold true today, and also the second most commonly produced opera in the US. Listeners are treated to aria after aria of incredible melodies, key changes and colors.<\/p>\n<p>The general [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}