Complex sentence: Henri Murger wrote about four starving artists in "Scènes de la Vie de Bohème", the basis for the operas La Bohème (Puccini) and La Bohème (Leoncavallo).
Split into simpler sentences: Henri Murger wrote about four starving artists in Scènes de la Vie de Bohème. The book is the basis for the operas La Bohème (Puccini) and La Bohème (Leoncavallo).