A portrait of Parisian youth set around 1830, the famous opera by Giacomo Puccini debuted at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 1 February 1896 directed by the twenty-nine-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Puccini looks at the last Verdi outlining a dramaturgically and musically very free structure, with a fluid succession and interpenetrated between moments of development of the action and episodes of intense lyricism The composer thus outlines a realistic illustration, lucid and at the same time intensely poetic that sees protagonists four young bohemians struggling with the inexorable fleeting of time.