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
Rodrigo Orrego he sang the parts of Pinkerton in “Madame Butterfly” (Puccini) and Pollione in “Norma” by Bellini. Santiago de Chile chose Orrego for the principal role in the world premiere of the opera “Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta” by the Chilean composer Sergio Ortega (libretto by Pablo Neruda), a production which was celebrated successfully also at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland. In Paris, in the Salle Pleyel, Orrego sang Oswald in Schubert´s opera “Des Teufels Lustschloß” with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Marek Janowsky. A highlight in the singer´s career was the enormous tenor part in