Manon Lescaut - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English and Italian surtitles

Puccini's imagination was captured by the love story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux, in which the protagonists defy social norms and the accepted moral law to be with each other, as a similar story of passion had played out in the composer's own life: his affair with Elvira Bonturi, a liaison that aroused enormous emotions in him but which could not become an official marriage due to the strictness of Italian law, filled his life. More than one collaborator tried to talk him out of using the subject, not only because of his own personal closeness to him, but also because of the enormous success of Massenet's own Manon. Fortunately, however, Puccini was not deterred and his first national success was born, soon conquering stages all over the world.

Audiences can see this work in a production by Máté Szabó.

Subject to change.