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Conductor

Mikahail Tatarnikov

Stage director

Jürgen Flimm

Set designer

George Tsypin

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Valentin Bogdanov

Lighting designer

Alexander Kibitkin

Sebastian Alphons

Video designer

Robert Pflanz

Chorus master

Alexey Dmitriev

Sergey Tsyplenkov

Translator

Margarita Kunitsyna-Tankevich

Pianist

Natalia Dudik

Vladimir Stolpovskikh

Assistant Conductors

Igor Tomashevsky

Assistant to Stage Director

Yulia Prokhorova

Assistant to Stage Designer

Polina Liefers

Assistant to Costume Designer

Julia Harttung

Singer

Soprano

Maria Litke

Manon Lescaut

Tenor

Fyodor Ataskevich

The knight René Des Grieux

Baritone

Alexander Kuznetsov

Lescaut

Bass

Nikolay Kopylov

Geronte de Revoir

Sofia Fainberg

Quattro musici

Ekaterina Egorova

Anna Buslidze

Svetlana Monchak

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Manon Lescaut Puccini

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опера в 3-х действияхмузыка Джакомо Пуччинипостановка Юргена Флимма opera in three actsmusic by Giacomo Pucciniproduction by Jürgen Flimm

The opera Manon Lescaut is considered to be one of Giacomo Puccini’s finest works.

Originally staged in Turin in 1893, it was the composer’s first undoubted triumph. The libretto is based on the novel L’histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost, one of the first ever psychological novels, which was very popular throughout Europe.

The creators of the Mikhailovsky Theatre production, director Jürgen Flimm and designer George Tsypin, have kept the action in Paris but have changed the period, setting the events in the early twentieth century. In their vivid adaptation, the heroine is a budding movie star and her lover is also an actor, whilst her wealthy admirer is a Hollywood producer.

The set design for the show resembles film noir in style with its characteristic lighting contrasts and dramatic shadows. The striking costumes are very much in keeping with the cinematography of the 1930s and 1940s. The emotional content is unchanged, succinctly described by the director as: “One woman, two men — catastrophic consequences.”

English

Manon Lescaut by Puccini, From (2019/2020), Directed by Jürgen Flimm,, Conductor Mikahail Tatarnikov, Valentin Bogdanov, Mikhailovsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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