Manon Lescault
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Manon Lescaut. The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut ( French: Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut [istwaʁ dy ʃ (ə)valje de ɡʁijø e d (ə) manɔ̃ lɛsko]) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité ...
Manon Lescaut ( Italian: [maˈnɔn leˈsko]) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva [ it], based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost.
Manon Lescaut, publié pour la première fois en 1731 sous le titre de La véritable histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, est un roman-mémoires de l’abbé Prévost, septième et dernier volume des Mémoires et aventures d’un homme de qualité qui s’est retiré du monde, rédigés de 1728 à 1731.
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Gian Carlo Menotti’s lavish new production of Manon Lescaut, designed by Desmond Heeley, “had the public in ecstasies” in 1980. Searingly passionate performances by soprano Renata Scotto in the title role and tenor Plácido Domingo as her lover were preserved on the Met’s first telecast of the opera that season.
Feb 1, 2018 · Three years before he premiered “La Bohème,” Puccini gave the world “Manon Lescaut.” The opera, based on the novel by Abbé Prévost, premiered on Feb. 1, 1893, and put Puccini in the public eye as a serious opera composer.
