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Georg Philipp Telemann
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Dimitry Rostovsky
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Gioachino Rossini
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Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Giacomo Puccini
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Richard Strauss
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Alexei Verstovsky
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Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Francesco Cilea
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César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
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Dmitry Shostakovich
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Umberto Giordano
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Dmitry Shostakovich
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
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Anton Rubinstein
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Hector Berlioz
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Giacomo Puccini
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mieczysław Weinberg
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Sergei Banevich
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Georges Bizet
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Gaetano Donizetti
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Richard Wagner
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Richard Strauss
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Jacques Offenbach
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Andrei Rubtsov
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Tatiana Kamysheva
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Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Borodin
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Georges Bizet
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The world premiere of G. Puccini’s Manon Lescaut happened at the Teatro Regio in Turin on the 1st of February 1893. It was the composer’s triumph: according to the feedback from contemporaries, “the whole of Italy was driven mad in its admiration for this opera”. No less important was the London premiere that took place the following year on the stage of Covent Garden. George Bernard Shaw, known not only for his plays but also his exceptionally engaging and at times cutting music reviews, had a warm reaction to it. His review offered the prophetic blessing: ”It seems to me that Puccini is to a higher degree than any of his competitors likely to be Verdi’s heir”.
Premiered on October 16, 2016.
Presented with one interval.
Libretto by Domenico Oliva, Marco Praga, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Giulio Ricordi based on the novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
Act I
A public square in Amiens
Students enjoy the summer evening in the town square. One of them, Edmondo, sings a madrigal of youthful pleasure, hoping to attract the young women. They ask a brooding Des Grieux to join them, and to prove he is not cynical about love, he gallantly flirts with a group of girls with mock courtesy. As they all celebrate in the street, a carriage arrives at the inn carrying Geronte, Lescaut and his sister Manon. Des Grieux is struck by Manon’s beauty and shyly approaches her. She is called inside by her brother, but has been won over by Des Grieux’s words, and they make plans to meet later.