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Sláva Daubnerová

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Juraj Kuchárek

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Tereza Kopecká

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Daniel Tesař

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Jitka Slavíková

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Ópera Checa de Praga

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Jan Adam

Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

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Ghiulnara Raileanu

Манон Леско

Petra Šimková Alvarez

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Lukáš Bařák

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Peter Berger

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Martin Šrejma

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Daniel Matoušek

Ivo Hrachovec

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Roman Vocel

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Josef Moravec

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Vít Šantora

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Michaela Zajmi

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Kateřina Jalovcová

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National Theatre Narodni Opera Ballet

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Adolf Melichar

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Silvia Magagni

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Maria Fuller

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Zuzana Kadlčíková

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Marie Anna Valíčková

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Simone Di Felice

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Oleg Korotkov

Капитан корабля

A life with the wealthy Geronte would offer the pretty Manon luxury, yet it would be devoid of passion. And great passion is what Manon enjoys with the poverty-stricken Chevalier Renato des Grieux. She must make a choice. Failing to do so is fateful for her …

The 1893 opera Manon Lescaut was Giacomo Puccini’s first triumph. Abounding in splendid melodies, the music renders intense emotions, from fervid love in the duet between Des Grieux and Manon in Act 2 to crushing despair of the lonesome Manon in the aria “Sola, perduta, abbandonata”.

The libretto is based on Abbé Prévost’s novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut, issued in 1731 in Paris. Puccini was mesmerised by the book, yet his publisher, Ricordi, tried to dissuade him from setting it, pointing out that the story had already been adapted as an opera, Jules Massenet’s wildly popular Manon. Puccini, however, stuck to his guns, reasoning that “a woman like Manon can have more than one lover”.

Despite its difficult gestation (the text was patched together by five librettists), he created an opera whose premiere, on 1 February 1893 in Turin, enraptured the audience and critics alike. Puccini’s Manon Lescaut received its first performance in Bohemia on 24 April 1894 at the National Theatre in Prague. The Neues deutsches Theater (today’s State Opera) followed suit on 1 November 1923, with the production conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky, who at the time served as director of its opera company.

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