Giacomo Puccini were Puccini's contemporaries, drew express parallels between these incidents and particular events in the opera. Checchi cited a diary kept by Puccini while he was still a student, which recorded an occasion in which, as in Act 4 of the opera, a single herring served as a dinner for four people. Puccini himself commented: "I lived that "Bohème", when there wasn't yet any thought stirring in my brain of seeking the theme of an opera". ("") Puccini's composition of "La bohème" was the subject of a public dispute between Puccini and fellow composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo. In early 1893, the two
Jo Puccini Puccini. She has been quoted "I'd like to support the next generation of women and encourage them," "Sometimes the quietest people in the office are the ones who work the hardest and often those are women." Jo Puccini Jo Puccini is an Australian journalist and executive producer for the ABC for the nightly current affairs programme 7.30. Puccini worked as a researcher and producer with the Seven Network on shows like Today Tonight, The Times and Witness, before joining the ABC's Media Watch as a researcher in 2000. Puccini was appointed Executive Producer for 7.30 in 2015 replacing Sally Neighbour.