Giacomo Puccini was right on time. With Italy’s greatest opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi, in the twilight of his career, it appeared the country’s status as an operatic epicenter might end with the ...

The Washington National Opera’s brilliant revival of “Manon Lescaut” demonstrates that as early as 1893, when Giacomo Puccini was writing this, his first popular work, he knew well how to use music to ...

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SEATTLE – Manon Lescaut wants it all – money, nice things and true love – and she wants it now. But as we know, life doesn’t always work that way, and that’s true for the tragic heroine of the Puccini ...

Content provided by Rolex Partner, “Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in”, Giacomo Puccini wrote to Giulio Ricordi, his publisher, who actively supported him after his first opera, Le Villi (1884).

Stephen Lawless’s production might be ill-focused but the singers are superb, particularly Peter Auty’s Des Grieux Like many opera companies, the Grange festival has been having its share of problems ...

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost and should not be confused ...

The Met's new production of Puccini's MANON LESCAUT opens February 12 with Kristine Opolais as the seductive, tragic heroine and Roberto Alagna in a role debut as her ardent lover, the Chevalier des ...

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Elizabeth Llewellyn is an exciting voice, but Karolina Sofulak’s uneven new production doesn’t quiet set the pulse racing Is Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s material girl, worth the tears his music so ...