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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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