Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" he calls a "lyric drama," and the title is not without significance as to the aims of the young composer at this early period in his career. It is his third operatic work, ...

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NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Manon Lescaut” ran into a potential snag when tenor Jonas Kaufmann canceled for health reasons. Fortunately, tenor star Roberto Alagna stepped in ...

Giacomo Puccini was right on time. With Italy’s greatest opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi, in the twilight of his career, it appeared the country’s status as an operatic epicenter might end with the ...

With appearances in stage productions in Vienna, Moscow and New York, as well as the three concert performances at the Salzburg festival in August, from which this recording of Manon Lescaut has been ...

Part of the recent popularity of Manon Lescaut has been thanks to Anna Netrebko’s assumption of the title role. In this live recording she is heard in concert at the 2016 Salzburg Festival with her ...

After nearly four decades, Puccini’s tragic “Manon Lescaut” returns to the Houston Grand Opera’s stage starring Finnish soprano Karita Mattila singing the title role opposite Russian tenor Vladimir ...

Destined for the convent, the young Manon falls head over heels in love with a handsome stranger and decides to flee with him. Yet aspiring to a life of wealth and luxury, she ends up throwing herself ...

The Davide Livermore production is the primary appeal of this Manon Lescaut DVD: dramaturgical problems are successfully addressed in an opera that can seem like scenes from the picaresque life of ...

Elizabeth Llewellyn is an exciting voice, but Karolina Sofulak’s uneven new production doesn’t quiet set the pulse racing Is Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s material girl, worth the tears his music so ...

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