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
Giacomo Puccini the top ten works performed, and Puccini ranks third (behind Verdi and Mozart) in the number of performances of his operas over all. Gustav Kobbé, the original author of "The Complete Opera Book", a standard reference work on opera, wrote in the 1919 edition: "Puccini is considered the most important figure in operatic Italy today, the successor of Verdi, if there is any." Other contemporaries shared this view. Italian opera composers of the generation with whom Puccini was compared included Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919), Umberto Giordano (1867–1948), Francesco Cilea (1866–1950), Baron Pierantonio Tasca (1858–1934), Gaetano Coronaro (1852–1908), and