Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut or the cruel reality of thwarted love magnified by the lyricism of Puccini.
Dates
Lorenzo Passerini | direction
Oliver Mears | staging
Sarah Fahie | choreography
Annemarie Woods | set design, costumes
Ricardo Pardo | set design
Fabiana Piccioli | lumières
Ailyn Pérez | Manon Lescaut
Roberto Alagna | Le Chevalier des Grieux
Lionel Lhote | Lescaut
Nicola Ulivieri | Geronte di Ravoir
Léo Vermot-Desroches | Edmond / Dance Master / Lamplighter
Mathilde Ortscheidt | Singer
Maurel Endong | Innkeeper / Sergeant
Orchestre National de France
accentus | direction Christophe Grapperon
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Sung in Italian, with French/English subtitles
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Audiodescription performance : Sunday 15 November, 5pm
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Approx. running time : 2h15
About
Puccini wrote just ten operas in a career spanning forty years and Manon Lescaut has a special place in this corpus as it was the first major hit which set the seal on his reputation. For this story, which had already been set to music by Auber and Massenet, he went through seven different librettists before achieving a totally satisfactory text. The result is a profoundly lyrical work with a number of unforgettable arias and duets extoling the power of love from frivolity right through to Manon’s exile and death in distant Louisiana.
For this work, which has not been frequently performed in Paris in recent decades, the Théâtre has assembled a dream cast of world-class singers, with vocally and theatrically sumptuous American singer Ailyn Pérez as Manon, and des Grieux sung by Roberto Alagna, whose Latin temperament and vocal quality are splendid in this repertoire. This is his big comeback to the Paris opera stage and he will be performing for the first time on avenue Montaigne in a staged production. In the orchestra pit, the Orchestre National de France will be back under the baton of Lorenzo Passerini. This is also a comeback for Oliver Mears (Semele by Handel), who once again explores the twists and turns of desire in our modern world and relationships between men and women.
Nouvelle production
Coproduction Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Londres | Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur
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En partenariat avec france.tv et Le Figaro
Dates
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Sung in Italian, with French/English subtitles
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Audiodescription performance : Sunday 15 November, 5pm
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Approx. running time : 2h15