Manon by Massenet, fr. 05 april 2019, Fra (2019/2019), I regi av Olivier Py, Daniel Izzo, Dirigent Marc Minkowski, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Music by Jules Massenet Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Gille based on the eponymous novel by Abbé Prévost Opera in 5 acts Premiered in Paris on January 19, 1884 at the Opéra Comique Inspired by the famous (and scandalous) Manon Lescaut published some 150 years earlier by the Abbé Prévost, Manon, a comic opera in five acts, won, from its creation in Paris in 1884, a public success that has never been denied: Jules Massenet's heroine soon established herself, alongside Bizet's Carmen, among the most popular in the French operatic repertoire. It is true that the thwarted destiny of Manon and her unfortunate suitor, the Chevalier des Grieux, cruel and overwhelming, is the ideal pretext for a profusion of arias of great beauty, through which Massenet imposes himself as the "historian music of the female soul", in the words of Debussy... After a first meeting for Pelléas et Mélisande in 2007, Marc Minkowski reunited with Olivier Py in this production created in Geneva in 2016,