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 into the arms of a rich nobleman. Can she forget her true love?
Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists succeed each other in trying to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini struggling perhaps to make his opera sufficiently different from Massenet’s on the same subject? Puccini probably never reached a ‘definitive’ form of this opera but it was his first international success and arguably the first in which the composer found his voice as a musical dramatist. Opera Poznań has entrusted their new production - streamed live on the opening night - to a former winner of the European Opera Directing Prize, Gerard Jones, and conductor Marco Guidarini.
This is the post-produced version of Manon Lescaut. Full performance streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 8 June 2024 at 19:00 CET and available until 8 December 2024 at 12:00 CET:
CAST
Manon
Iwona Sobotka
Des Grieux
Dominik Sutowicz
Lescaut
Jaromir Trafankowski
Geronte de Ravoir
Rafał Korpik
Edmond
Piotr Kalina
Innkeeper and captain
Michał Korzeniowski
Ballet master
Bartłomiej Szczeszek
Singer
Laura Wąsek
Sergeant
Tomasz Mazur
Lamplighter
Marek Szymański
Orchestra
Poznań Opera Orchestra
Chorus
Poznań Opera Chorus
Music
Giacomo Puccini
Text
Luigi Illica
Marco Praga
Domenico Oliva
Conductor
Marco Guidarini
Director
Gerard Jones
Scenography
Blanca Añón
Light
Marc Gonzalo
Costume
Donna Raphael
Chorus Master
Mariusz Otto
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