Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work
[DOC] [TLE] April 15 - Metropolitan Opera [PAR] Apr 15, 2016 ... try to keep warm on Christmas Eve by feeding the stove with pages from .... 
Giacomo Puccini (18581924) was immensely popular in his own ... going out on 
the town, hits full flower in Act II, when they (and we) are actually ... hardship: 
Marcello works on his painting, Rodolfo burns the pages of his play to.