Gosh.

So he's part of the Argentinian group that's community that's come to Paris to make lots of money.

He's a banker.

Um, he, we, we realize there are references to telephones and cars in the libretto.

We know we are meant to be in a very modern setting.

And actually, the more we listen to the opera, the more we might think that some of these modern dances that we hear in the opera possibly had their o- origins in the fact that it was meant to sound like the most contemporary popular music of the time.

And so Puccini had this blurb, and what he also was presented with was something that actually ended with a very violent, tragic end of the opera where Ruggero discovers Magda's past and he rejects her.

Yes