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Chinese operatic soprano Shi Pei Pu dies

Saturday, July 4, 2009
The Washington Post


WASHINGTON -- Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play "M. Butterfly" and movie of the same title, died June 30 in Paris. An aide confirmed Shi's death to Agence France-Presse and said he was 70.

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