Victoria de los Ángeles López García was a Catalan Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.
Portrait by Allan Warren
La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
Rodolfo, costume design by Adolfo Hohenstein for the premiere at the Teatro Regio, 1896
Mimì's costume for the premiere
Act 2 costume design for "la rappezzatrice" (the clothes mender) for the world premiere performance.
Set design by Adolfo Hohenstein for act 2 in the première