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The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2016)

Directed by Richard Eyre, Gary Halvorson

Overview

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occupied France, was one of the highlights of the Met’s 2015–16 season. Massimo Cavalletti as Manon’s brother and Brindley Sherratt as her aging admirer co-star, and Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

Length 144 minutes

Actors

Kristine Opolais | Roberto Alagna | Massimo Cavalletti | Brindley Sherratt | Zach Borichevsky | Fabio Luisi | Deborah Voigt | Philip Cokorinos | Virginie Verrez | Scott Scully | Martin Harvey | Maria D'Amato | Christina Thomson Anderson | Stephanie Chigas | Rosalie Sullivan | Brandon Cedel | Andrew Bidlack | Richard Berstein