Ein schöner Tag Chart in 2000 and at number 91 in Switzerland. The cover art work shows a graphic of the sun. The styles of the song and of the music video of Ein schöner Tag are very close to the previous single Ruhe. The vocals by Isgaard are a sample of the theme ""Un bel dì vedremo"" from the opera ""Madame Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini. The spoken words by Pigulla are: Translation from German: "A beautiful day - when it comes to an end, nothing is as it was." In 2003 English soprano Sarah Brightman released a cover version of ""A Beautiful
Manon Lescaut (Puccini) compositions for strings: the quartet "Crisantemi" (January 1890), three "Menuets" (probably 1884) and a "Scherzo" (1883?). The love theme comes from the aria "Mentia l'avviso" (1883). Puccini's publisher, Ricordi, had been against any project based on Prévost's story because Jules Massenet had already made it into a successful opera, "Manon", in 1884. While Puccini and Ricordi may not have known it, the French composer Daniel Auber had also already written an opera on the same subject with the title "Manon Lescaut", in 1856. Despite all the warnings, Puccini proceeded. "Manon is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot