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Thread #146905   Message #3433604
Posted By: GUEST,Jane Ann Liston
09-Nov-12 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: Opera
Subject: RE: Opera
Chanteylass, you might now find Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Sorcerer' entertaining, as it owes not a little to L'Elisir d'Amore (as well as a passing reference to Der Freischtutz).

By the way, I see I omitted the name of the Sidney Jones operetta which was one of the inspirations for 'Madama Butterfly' in my last post; it is 'The Geisha', written in 1896. One of the numbers, 'Chin-chin Chinaman' later became a street song. Not often performed now, but lots of good tunes, colour and fun.