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Manon Lescaut (2016)

Directed by Jonathan Kent

Overview

“Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in,” wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Experience Puccini’s third opera and first big success in Götz Friedrich’s landmark 1983 production at the Royal Opera House. The extraordinary Plácido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa take on the roles of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, accompanied by the Royal Opera House Choir and Orchestra under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Length 130 minutes

Actors

Sondra Radvanovsky | Levente Molnár | Aleksandrs Antonenko | Eric Halfvarson | Luis Gomes | Aled Hall | David Junghoon Kim | David Shipley | Nicholas Crawley | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House