Name: Manon Lescaut
Start: 2016-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-12-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Sopran

Sondra Radvanovsky

Manon Lescaut

Tenor

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Der Ritter René Des Grieux

Massimo Giordano

Bariton

Levente Molnár

Lescaut

Bass

Eric Halfvarson

Geronte de Ravoir

Luis Gomes

Edmond

Mezzosopran

Emily Edmonds

Ein Musiker

Aled Hall

Der Tanzmeister

David Junghoon Kim

Ein Laternenanzünder

David Shipley

Sergeant der Bogenschützen

Bass-Bariton

Nicholas Crawley

Der Marinekommandant

Dirigat

Dirigat (+1)

Antonio Pappano

Regie

Jonathan Kent

Bühnenbild

Bühnenbild (+1)

Paul Brown

Royal Ballet and Opera

Assistant Stage Director

Regie (+2)

Pedro Ribeiro

Royal Opera House

Italienisch

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Oper

Englisch

Genehmigt

Jonas Kaufmann as Des Grieux sings 'Donna non vidi mai' from Act I of Jonathan Kent's production of Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera, 2014. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/manonlescaut


Puccini’s publisher tried to prevent him from adapting Abbé Prévost’s L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – Massenet had already created a highly successful opera based on the novel. But Puccini was not to be dissuaded, claiming ‘a woman like Manon can have more than one lover’. Despite a troubled gestation (five librettists were engaged in the project), the premiere of Manon Lescaut in 1893 was Puccini’s first major triumph – a hit with critics and the public alike.

Puccini’s sumptuous, richly-coloured score is characterized by youthful vitality and filled with glorious melodies. Des Grieux expresses his passion for Manon in the Act I aria ‘Vedete? io son fedele’, lively dances evoke Manon’s luxurious life in Paris in Act II, while in the impassioned finale to Act III, ‘Pazza son!’, Des Grieux begs to be allowed to join the imprisoned Manon on her voyage to America. The opera culminates in Manon’s heartbreaking Act IV aria ‘Sola, perduta, abbandonata’, as she contemplates her impending death. Jonathan Kent's controversial new production for The Royal Opera, with a star-studded cast including Jonas Kaufmann as Des Grieux and Kristine Opolais as Manon, was The Royal Opera's first production in more than thirty years.

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