Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work
[DOC] [TLE] THEATER REVIEW; Sudden Streak of Red Warms a Cold Garret ... [PAR] Dec 9, 2002 ... Ben Brantley reviews Broadway production of Puccini opera La Boheme, 
directed by Baz Luhrmann; ... A poet burns his manuscript in a stove.