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La bohème
La bohème is Giacomo Puccini's 1896 four-act opera about Rodolfo and Mimì in Paris's Latin Quarter, premiered at the Turin Teatro Regio under Toscanini, based on Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème and among the world's most performed operas.
La Boisse
La Boisse is a commune in the Ain department, France, about 20 km northeast of Lyon on the right bank of the Rhône. It is known for the Gallo-Roman villa des Vernes, excavated in 1980 and 2005-2006, and for its church attested since 984.
La bola negra
La bola negra (The Black Ball) is a 2026 Spanish-French drama-musical by Los Javis (Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi) about three gay men in 1932, 1937, and 2017, inspired by Lorca's unfinished play; Cannes Best Director and TIFF People's Choice winner.
La Bombonera
La Bombonera (Estadio Alberto J. Armando), Boca Juniors' stadium at Brandsen 805, La Boca, Buenos Aires; inaugurated 25 May 1940, D-shaped with three steep tiers, capacity 54,000, planned expansion to 80,000.
La Bonne Chanson
La Bonne Chanson is an 1870 collection of 21 poems by Paul Verlaine, written for Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville and published in Paris by Alphonse Lemerre.
La Bouche
La Bouche is a German-American Eurodance duo founded in 1994 in Frankfurt by producer Frank Farian, known for the 1995 hits "Sweet Dreams" and "Be My Lover".
La Boum
La Boum (1980) is a French comedy-drama by Claude Pinoteau starring Sophie Marceau as teenage Vic; France's biggest 1980 hit with 4,378,430 admissions, famous for Cosma's song Reality, followed by La Boum 2 (1982).
La Boum 2
La Boum 2 (1982) is Claude Pinoteau's French comedy-drama sequel to La Boum, starring Sophie Marceau as Vic, Pierre Cosso, Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, and Denise Grey; it drew 4,071,585 French admissions and won Marceau the 1983 César for Most Promising Actress.
LA Bowl
LA Bowl: college football bowl game at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, 2021-2025, Mountain West vs Pac-12, sponsored by Jimmy Kimmel then hosted by Rob Gronkowski; discontinued after five editions.
La Brea (TV series)
La Brea is an NBC science fiction drama created by David Appelbaum (2021–2024), in which a Los Angeles sinkhole sends survivors, including the Harris family, to a world 10,000 years in the past. Three seasons, 30 episodes; ended by NBC in 2023.
La Brea Tar Pits
La Brea Tar Pits (Rancho La Brea), active Ice Age asphalt-seep fossil site in Hancock Park, Los Angeles; over 3.5 million fossils of 600+ species, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats, Page Museum, Rancholabrean type locality.
La Brèche (necropolis)
La Brèche (necropolis), Laudun-l'Ardoise, Gard, France: large rescue-excavated necropolis near the Tave, Céze, and Rhône confluences, used from the 3rd century CE to the 16th century, with tile graves and a displaced-skull burial.
La Brenne
La Brenne: wetland natural region in Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France; Ramsar site 518 (140,000 ha, 1991) with about 3,000 medieval carp ponds; regional nature park renewed 2026.
La Buena Estrella
La buena estrella (Lucky Star), 1997 Spanish drama by Ricardo Franco: castrated butcher Rafael shelters pregnant Marina; five Goyas including Best Film, Cannes Un Certain Regard, Franco's last completed film.
La bufera e altro
La bufera e altro is a 1956 poetry collection by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, his third book after Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni, centered on the war years.
La Cage aux Folles (film)
La Cage aux Folles (Il vizietto) is a 1978 French-Italian comedy by Édouard Molinaro, adapted from Jean Poiret's 1973 play, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as a Saint-Tropez gay couple; it earned three Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe, and record foreign-language U.S. box office.
La Cage aux Folles (musical)
La Cage aux Folles is a 1983 Jerry Herman–Harvey Fierstein Broadway musical based on Jean Poiret's play, about Saint-Tropez nightclub owners Georges and Albin; it ran 1,761 performances and won six 1984 Tonys including Best Musical.
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding is a 1985 French-Italian comedy directed by Georges Lautner, the third and final film in the La Cage aux Folles series.
La Cage aux Folles II
La Cage aux Folles II is a 1980 French-Italian comedy sequel directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi as Albin and Renato, a Saint-Tropez drag cabaret couple caught in a spy microfilm caper; released in the US by MGM in 1981.
La Caisse
La Caisse, formerly CDPQ, is a Quebec institutional investment manager created in 1965 that invests pension and insurance funds for over 6 million Quebecers, with net assets of $517 billion.
La Caixa
La Caixa, formally the Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, is a Spanish banking foundation created in Barcelona in 1904 as a pension savings bank.
La Caja 507
La caja 507 (Box 507) is a 2002 Spanish thriller by Enrique Urbizu starring Antonio Resines and José Coronado, about a bank manager who learns from a robbed deposit box that his daughter's death was murder; it won two Goyas in 2003.
La Calade
La Calade is the name of several heritage sites in southern France, chiefly a Gallo-Roman necropolis at Cabasse in the Var, excavated by Georges Bérard in the early 1960s.
La Calavera Catrina
La Calavera Catrina, originally La Calavera Garbancera, is José Guadalupe Posada's etched female skeleton in a feathered European hat, renamed by Diego Rivera in his 1947 mural and now the iconic symbol of Mexico's Día de Muertos.
La Cambe German war cemetery
La Cambe German war cemetery (Cimetière militaire allemand de La Cambe), Normandy's largest German WWII cemetery, holds 21,245 soldiers under a Tischler-designed tumulus, dedicated 1961 and maintained by the Volksbund.
La Campana
La Campana (Almoloyan) is a 132-hectare Mesoamerican archaeological zone in Villa de Álvarez, Colima, Mexico, a Teuchitlán-tradition shaft-tomb city occupied from about 1870 BC, oriented toward the Volcán de Fuego, with Teotihuacán-style precincts and 108 petroglyphs.
La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve
La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Campana-Peñuelas), UNESCO MAB site in central Chile designated 1984, expanded 2009 to 238,216 ha; core areas La Campana National Park and Lago Peñuelas National Reserve; Mediterranean hotspot, Management Plan 2026-2031 in progress.
La campanella
La campanella is Liszt's Étude No. 3 in G-sharp minor from the Grandes études de Paganini, S.141 (1851), based on the rondo of Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, with earlier 1832 and 1838 versions.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
La Cañada Flintridge is a Los Angeles County, California city incorporated December 8, 1976 from La Cañada and Flintridge, population 20,573 (2020), a contract city with council-manager government, home to JPL, and known for its no-hyphen name and single-family housing.
La Carlota-Tío Pujio Gas Pipeline
The La Carlota-Tío Pujio Gas Pipeline is a 122.8 km natural gas pipeline in Córdoba province, Argentina, opened in 2024 to carry Vaca Muerta gas north.