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Manon Lescaut tells a good, solid story, as previous settings of Abbé Prévost’s novel of 1731 had already demonstrated, but the narrative undoubtedly has its flaws and it certainly has some structural weaknesses incurred by the omission of significant events.
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Manon Lescaut (Italian: [maˈnɔn leˈsko]) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva [it], based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost.
Feb 1, 2018 · Three years before he premiered “La Bohème,” Puccini gave the world “Manon Lescaut.” The opera, based on the novel by Abbé Prévost, premiered on Feb. 1, 1893, and put Puccini in the public eye as a serious opera composer.
In the eighteenth-century France, the student Des Grieux falls in love with Manon, who has arrived in Amiens from the country along with her brother Lescaut, and is on her way to a convent in Paris. The old and wealthy Geronte is struck by the beauty of Manon and plans to abduct her. But she escapes to Paris with Des Grieux.
Puccini’s Manon Lescaut hasn’t been seen at the Royal Opera House for 30 years, but Massenet’s Manon is regularly revived. So Londoners are more familiar with Manon than with Manon Lescaut. Yet the two operas are radically different.
Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut (1889-92) comes, chronologically, after his two early operas, Le Villi (The Spirits) (1883-4) and Edgar (1885-8; rev. 1891-2), and immediately before his 'golden' trio of operas: La bohème (1893-95), Tosca (1896-9) and Madama Butterfly (1901-03; rev. 1904-06).
Feb 25, 2024 · English Touring Opera opens spring tour with an off-the-wall. Manon Lescaut. By Mark Valencia, 25 February 2024. There’s a nagging mystery in Jude Christian’s technically impressive staging of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.
