100 Great Operas and Their Stories by Henry W. Simon

Author:Henry W. Simon [Simon, Henry W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-77370-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

MANON

Opera in five acts by Jules Massenet with libretto

in French by Henri Meilhac and Philippe

Gille, based on Antoine François Prévost’s novel

Les aventures du Chevalier des Grieux

et de Manon Lescaut

MANON LESCAUT Soprano

LESCAUT, of the Royal Guard, her cousin Baritone

COUNT DES GRIEUX Bass

CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX, his son Tenor

GUILLOT DE MORFONTAINE, an old roué Tenor

DE BRÉTIGNY, a nobleman Baritone

actresses Sopranos

POUSETTE

JAVOTTE

ROSETTE

Time: 18th century

Places: Amiens, Paris, and Le Havre

First performance at Paris, January 19, 1884

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