Name: Simon Rattle conducts “Manon Lescaut”
Start: 2014-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Organization

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Chorus master

Walter Zeh

Tenor

Massimo Giordano

The knight René Des Grieux

Soprano

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Manon Lescaut

Baritone

Lester Lynch

Lescaut

Bogdan Mihai

Edmond

Bass

Reinhard Dorn

An innkeeper

The naval captain

Arthur Espiritu

A lamplighter

Kresimir Spicer

The dance master

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Others

Philharmonia Chorus

Simon Rattle conducts “Manon Lescaut”

Berlin

Germany

Berliner Philharmonie

Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut is a shocking tale, told in softly melting vocal lines and seductive orchestral colours. Following staged performances at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, the audience of the Philharmonie had the opportunity to enjoy a concert version in April 2014. Sir Simon Rattle conducts an illustrious ensemble of singers with the magnificent Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek in the title role.

Simon Rattle conducts “Manon Lescaut”: Manon Lescaut Puccini

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Giacomo Puccini: "In your deep eye" from Manon Lescaut / Eva-Maria Westbroek, soprano (Manon Lescaut) Massimo Giordano, tenor (Renato Des Grieux) Sir Simon Rattle, conductor Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie , 26 April 2014. The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall:

Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Westbroek · Giordano · Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker

From naive innocence to femme fatale and outlaw – the fall from grace of the heroine of Abbé Prévost novel L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut is extreme. No wonder that the easygoing Manon Lescaut, who shifts constantly between true love and her lust for luxury, inflamed the imagination of opera composers. With the dramma lirico Manon Lescaut, the 35-year-old Giacomo Puccini made his artistic breakthrough in 1893. The work established him as one of the leading opera composers of his time – even although there was already the extremely successful Manon by the Frenchman Jules Massenet. But Puccini knew how to create a unique version, full of passion and drama, captivating melodies and seductive instrumental textures.

The role of Manon Lescaut is sung by the Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, a soloist held in high regard by the Berliner Philharmoniker: She has been engaged on several occasions to sing the role of Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre: both for the concert performances in 2005 and 2012, and for the staged operatic productions in Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg in 2007 and 2008. Each time, she impressed audiences with her expressive voice, in both lyrical and dramatic moments.

At her side as Des Grieux, Manon's great love, is the Naples-born Massimo Giordano, one of the leading bel canto tenors. Conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in this concert performance of the opera at the Philharmonie is chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle, who guided the ensemble through the score at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden just a few days before this performance.

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