The Dover Opera Libretto Series-Complete Italian libretto with English translation by Ellen H. Beiler.This volume contains everything the operagoer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Boheme except the musical score itself. Most important it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto just as it is actually sung; that is when a singer repeats a phrase several times each of the repetitions each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the lubretto into modern idiomatic English.
