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About Harry Hayfield
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I can answer questions about Gilbert and Sullivan and their comic operas, where to find the words and the music and also any questions regarding plots

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Have appeared in "Ruddigore" in March 2002 and recently watched "Topsy Turvy"

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Opera - Opera Madama Butterfly?

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pav wrote at 2007-09-03 05:28:35
No, he clearly worte it himself, the music that is, the libretto was written by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera was based in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long—which was turned into a play by David Belasco.

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