Manon Lescaut - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Manon Lescaut
State Opera Choir
State Opera Orchestra
National Theatre Opera Ballet
Language
In Italian, surtitles in Czech, English
A life with the rich Geronte would offer the pretty Manon luxury, but it would be devoid of passion. And great passion is what Manon enjoys with the impoverished Chevalier Renato des Grieux. She must make a decision. If she does not, it will be fatal for her...
The 1893 opera Manon Lescaut was Giacomo Puccini's first triumph. The music is full of beautiful melodies and conveys intense emotions, from the fervent love in the duet between Des Grieux and Manon in Act 2 to the devastating despair of the lonely Manon in the aria "Sola, perduta, abbandonata".
The libretto is based on Abbé Prévost's novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, published in Paris in 1731. Puccini was fascinated by the book, but his publisher Ricordi tried to dissuade him from setting it to music, pointing out that the story had already been adapted into an opera, namely Jules Massenet's hugely popular Manon. Puccini stuck to his guns, arguing that "a woman like Manon can have more than one lover."
Despite the difficult writing process (the text was patched together by five librettists), he created an opera whose premiere in Turin on February 1, 1893, delighted audiences and critics alike. Puccini's Manon Lescaut premiered on April 24, 1894 at the National Theatre in Prague. The New German Theater (today's State Opera) followed suit on November 1, 1923 and conducted the production under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky, who was director of the opera house there at the time.
Subject to change.
State Opera Orchestra
National Theatre Opera Ballet
Language
In Italian, surtitles in Czech, English
A life with the rich Geronte would offer the pretty Manon luxury, but it would be devoid of passion. And great passion is what Manon enjoys with the impoverished Chevalier Renato des Grieux. She must make a decision. If she does not, it will be fatal for her...
The 1893 opera Manon Lescaut was Giacomo Puccini's first triumph. The music is full of beautiful melodies and conveys intense emotions, from the fervent love in the duet between Des Grieux and Manon in Act 2 to the devastating despair of the lonely Manon in the aria "Sola, perduta, abbandonata".
The libretto is based on Abbé Prévost's novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, published in Paris in 1731. Puccini was fascinated by the book, but his publisher Ricordi tried to dissuade him from setting it to music, pointing out that the story had already been adapted into an opera, namely Jules Massenet's hugely popular Manon. Puccini stuck to his guns, arguing that "a woman like Manon can have more than one lover."
Despite the difficult writing process (the text was patched together by five librettists), he created an opera whose premiere in Turin on February 1, 1893, delighted audiences and critics alike. Puccini's Manon Lescaut premiered on April 24, 1894 at the National Theatre in Prague. The New German Theater (today's State Opera) followed suit on November 1, 1923 and conducted the production under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky, who was director of the opera house there at the time.
Subject to change.
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Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
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