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Manon
by
Jules Massenet
Libretto by
Henri Meilhac and
Philippe Gille
Based on L'histoire du
chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
Synopsis
Video Clip
Sung in
French with English
supertitles
September 12 - 27, 2009
All performances start at 8 p.m.
except for Sunday matinees which start
at 3 p.m.
Run-time for Manon is
approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Free pre-performance talks
(Click here for information)
Manon
interview: Khori Dastoor and
Joseph Marcheso
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Photo by Chris Ayers |
What is it about French operas named after women? Elegant and
passionate, Manon is the most celebrated
opera to come out of France since Carmen. Massenet's exquisite
1884 masterpiece depicts the rise and fall of a
beautiful young coquette. Manon is a teenager in 18th-century France
who is being sent to a convent because
her parents think she is far too pretty and fun-loving for her own
good. En route, she meets the handsome young Chevalier des Grieux. He
gives her his heart - too quickly and too completely - and she,
smitten as well, runs off
to Paris with him.All too soon,
it is clear that Manon loves money as much as she does the young
aristocrat. She moves on to
greener pastures, and he tries to forget her. But not even holy orders
can overcome his terrible compulsion for her.
Manon is really about two addicted young people - one to love
and the other to money. Yet, Massenet's ravish-
ingly romantic score is so shimmering and sensual that it wraps these
wayward characters in an aura that pre-
serves their attractiveness and their charm.
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