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05/03/2016

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut, starring Roberto Alagna and Kristine Opolais. Conducted by Fabio Luisi.

Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Presented by Loren Toolajian, with Ira Siff

Manon Lescaut ..... Kristine Opolais (soprano)
Des Grieux ..... Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Lescaut ..... Massimo Cavaletti (baritone)
Geronte ..... Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Edmondo ..... Zach Borichevsky (tenor)
Hotel manager ..... Philip Cokorinos (bass-baritone)
A musician ..... Virginie Verrez (mezzo-soprano)
Dancing master ..... Scott Scully (tenor)
A sergeant ..... Brandon Cedel (bass-baritone)
Street sweeper ..... Andrew Bidlack (tenor)
Sea captain ..... Richard Bernstein (bass)
Madrigal singers ..... Maria D'Amato, Christina Thomson Anderson, Stephanie Chigas, Rosalie Sullivan

The Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
The Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Fabio Luisi (conductor)


Outside an inn in Amiens, the young student Des Grieux meets Manon, who is on her way to a convent on the orders of her parents. The pair fall in love and escape to Paris. However, in Paris, Manon's head is turned as the elderly Geronte offers her a life of wealth and luxury, but she soon regrets her decision to exchange love for money with heartbreaking consequences.
"Desperate passion" is how Puccini described his third opera and first huge success, taking 50 curtain calls at its premiere. Soprano Kristine Opolais sings the role of Manon, and star tenor Roberto Alagna the dashing student who woos her. The Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the sumptuous score, in Director Richard Eyre's new production, live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

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