Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work
If you want...keep it in 
memory [DOC] [TLE] A Bohemian Tale Of Love and Loss In The Lyric's 'La Bohme' | KCUR [PAR] Mar 14, 2014 ... Giacomo Puccini's doomed bohemian lovers feature Giorgio Berrugi, ... as 
Rodolfo and Katie Van Kooten, as Mim, in Lyric Opera of Kansas City's 
production of 'La Bohme.'