For 10 points, name this Puccini opera about starving Parisian artists, an inspiration for the musical RENT.
In this opera, a tenor character finds a woman's key before touching her cold hand in the aria "Che Gelida Manina", and another character smashes a plate, complaining about café service to Alcindoro before singing the seductive "Quando me n'vo". At the start of this opera, two characters burn a five-act manuscript to keep warm before [*] Schaunard and Colline arrive. Its main characters are the painter Marcello, who reunites with Musetta, and the playwright Rodolfo, whose love Mimi dies in his arms of tuberculosis. For 10 points, name this Puccini opera about starving Parisian artists, an inspiration for the musical RENT.
In this opera, a tenor character finds a woman's key before touching her cold hand in the aria "Che Gelida Manina", and another character smashes a plate, complaining about café service to Alcindoro before singing the seductive "Quando me n'vo".
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