Name: Manon
Start: 2020-02-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra Bastille

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Organization

Soprano

Pretty Yende

Manon Lescaut

Amina Edris

Tenore

Benjamin Bernheim

Il Cavaliere Des Grieux

Stephen Costello

Baritono

Ludovic Tézier

Lescaut

Basso

Roberto Tagliavini

Il Conte Des Grieux

Rodolphe Briand

Guillot de Morfontaine

Pierre Doyen

Monsieur de Brétigny

Cassandre Berthon

Poussette

Mezzosoprano

Alix Le Saux

Javotte

Jeanne Ireland

Rosette

Philippe Rouillon

L'oste

Cantante

Julien Joguet

Guardia I

Laurent Laberdesque

Direzione d'orchestra

Dan Ettinger

Regia

Vincent Huguet

Scenografia

Aurélie Maestre

Costumi

Clémence Pernoud

Luci

Bertrand Couderc

Coreografia

Jean-François Kessler

Direzione del coro

José Luis Basso

Drammaturgia

Louis Geisler

Opéra National de Paris

Manon

Parigi

Francia

Opéra Bastille

Manon is like any person who, strolling down the street one day, glances up at a second-story window and catches a glimpse of a different life,” explains Vincent Huguet about his staging of Massenet’s Manon, “a life that she suddenly desires ardently … and will do anything to have.” In his update of Prévost’s famous novel, Huguet demonstrates, with empathy and acuity, that Manon’s tale could really be anyone’s.

Next to the two other well-known adaptations of Manon Lescaut for the opera stage (Auber’s in 1856 and Puccini’s in 1893), it is Massenet’s that hews most closely to the novel. All the essential elements of the story are there: the bright-eyed youth of the protagonists, Manon’s uncertainty as to what she truly desires, and des Grieux’s innocence that will harden and shatter in the face of tragedy. Sensational young superstars Benjamin Bernheim (des Grieux) and Pretty Yende (Manon) are accompanied by the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus, under the capable baton of Dan Ettinger.

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