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Manon Lescaut. The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut (French: Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut [istwaʁ dy ʃ (ə)valje de ɡʁijø e d (ə) manɔ̃ lɛsko]) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité ...
It is the story of a lovely young woman, Manon, who is being taken by her brother to live in a convent. Des Grieux, a local student, is overwhelmed by Manon’s beauty and falls madly in love with her at first sight.
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 at the Royal Opera House, London, brings out the humanity which lies beneath Puccini's music. The composer was drawn to what we'd now called "outsiders. In Manon Lescaut, Puccini describes his anti-heroine with unsentimental honesty.
Aug 6, 2024 · Manon is a femme fatale, inadvertently leading her beloved to financial and moral ruin. While Prévost's novel is written from a man's point of view, Puccini's Manon Lescaut libretto focuses on the female figure. Some parts of the story are radically changed, others edited. Manon's three suitors melted into one – Geronte.
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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.
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