Massenet's Manon
' Frankly rouée; perfidious, loving, distracting, spirituelle, formidable and charming,' wrote Guy de Maupassant.
In this programme Alan Blyth considers the character of Manon and her lover Des Grieux. as depicted by Massenet in his opera: with the voices of. among others, VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES, EMMA LUART. NINON VALLIN , CHARLES FRIANT and GEORGES THILL. gramophone records