writer: "Manon Lescaut: Donna Non Vidi Mai", "Coro a Bocca Chiusa (Humming Chorus) - Madama Butterfly", "La Bohème: O Soave Fanciulla", "Puccini: Quest Mar Rosso (La Bohème / Act 1)", "Che Gelida Manina"
(January 9 to March 7, 2004) He and Giuseppe Giacosa were librettists for Baz Luhrman's production of Puccini's opera, "La Boheme," at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Giacomo Puccini was composer. Baz Luhrman was also director. Catherine Martin was set designer. Nigel Levings was lighting designer. Acme Sound Partners were sound designers. Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie were costume designers.
Italian librettist, one of the earliest to devise his own plots, as in
"Andrea Chénier" and "Siberia," and was instrumental in breaking down
the rigid system of Italian operatic metres into lines of irregular
length.
