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
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt Grand Théâtre de Genève, Lausanne Opera and Zurich Opera, Netherlands Opera, Theater an der Wien, New Israeli Opera and Australian Opera. His operatic productions have included "L'enfant et les sortilèges" and "L'heure Espagnole" (Torquemada) by Ravel, "Le Nozze di Figaro" (Basilio) by Mozart, "Orphée aux Enfers" by Offenbach, "Falstaff" (Bardolfo) by Verdi, "Manon" (Guillot de Morfontaine) by Massenet, "Madame Butterfly" (Goro) by Puccini, "Eugene Onegin" (Monsieur Triquet) by Tchaikovsky, "L'étoile" (Ouf 1er) by Chabrier, "Calisto" by Cavalli, and "The Golden Cockerel" (The astrologer) by Rimsky-Korsakov. His orchestral engagements have include invitations from Saito Kinen Orchestra, Boston Symphony, National Orchestra of