Miss Saigon Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and "Madame Butterfly"'s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Bellissima Opera racial issues. 2006: "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi, the Village Players Theatre, Oak Park, Illinois, May, 2006. 2007: "Madame Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini, the Village Players Theatre, Oak Park, Illinois, June, 2007. 2008: "La Traviata" by Verdi, the New Buffalo Performing Arts Center, New Buffalo, Michigan, July 26, 2008. "Caroline Myss' Voices of the Sacred", songs of the world's most famous and beloved sacred music, recorded in partnership with Sounds True©. The CD release concert was held at Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, Sept. 6, 2008. 2009: "The World's Greatest Arias" a concert including songs from "La Traviata, Madame Butterfly,