ELLIS BURFORD (Soprano) THE PARKINGTON QUINTET
THE Abbé Prevost's novel has furnished the text for more than one opera, and this song comes from the second act of Puccini's. Manon has made up her mind to give up the luxury and' gay pleasures with which the wealthy Geronte has surrounded her, for the sake of des Grieux, whose faithful love means to her, for the moment at least, more than anything else in her world. In this song she is bidding a half-pathetic farewell to the pleasures which she is giving up for love's sake.