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This performance was eventually released on records and on Compact Disc. In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. According to Operabase, it is the fourth most frequently performed opera worldwide. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas internationally. The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini. His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.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. In the 1960’s he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player.

By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola.

By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother.

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