Luigi Illica

[laughs]

And this is reason- This is, like, recent enough that we, like, know that, like, after seeing the performa- Belasco's, you know, play and, uh, performance, Puccini asked his publisher to secure the rights, and then worked with librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giaco- Giacosa, uh, to make an opera.

And so it wasn't like it was, like, a direct ad- It wasn't...

It was, like, you know, it was art.