Original: La bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger.
Simplified: La bohème is an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The words (libretto) were written by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, who based it on a story called Scènes de la vie de Bohème (Scenes of bohemian life) by Henri Murger.