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- Opera in 4 acts Sung in Italian About 2 hours 20 min + intervals
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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.
Manon Lescaut plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.
Gian Carlo Menotti’s lavish new production of Manon Lescaut, designed by Desmond Heeley, “had the public in ecstasies” in 1980. Searingly passionate performances by soprano Renata Scotto in the title role and tenor Plácido Domingo as her lover were preserved on the Met’s first telecast of the opera that season.
Aug 6, 2024 · Puccini. Live on 08.06.2024 at 19h00 CET Available until 08.12.2024 at 12h00 CET. Sung in. Italian. Subtitles in. English. Polish. Destined for the convent, the young Manon falls head over heels in love with a handsome stranger and decides to flee with him.
- Marco Guidarini
- Giacomo Puccini
- Gerard Jones
- Luigi IllicaMarco PragaDomenico Oliva
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.
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.