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
Paris Opera Ballet Palais Garnier where most of the Paris Opera ballets take place to a new building located 10 kilometres west of the centre of Paris in Nanterre. The new dance school building was designed by Christian de Portzamparc. Since 1995 the Paris Opera Ballet School has been a boarding school, Nowadays, from 8 till noon, all pupils attend school classes leading to the obtention of the French "baccalauréat (the bac)", the general qualification for university entrance in France. Among the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet, 95 percent have attended the Paris Opera Ballet School. To describe it differently, for a