La bohme first premiered in 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, and was most recently performed in 2012 for Opera Australia.
The world premiere of La boheme was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Baz Luhrmann produced the opera for Opera Australia in 1990 with modernized supertitle translations, and a budget of only A$60,000. The harbour has since received annual stagings, followed by Madama Butterfly (2014), Aida (2015), and Turandot (2016), a new production of Carmen in 2017, La boheme (2018), West Side Story (2019). 
