Overview

"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Experience Puccini's third opera and first big success in Götz Friedrich's landmark 1983 production at the Royal Opera House. The extraordinary Plácido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa take on the roles of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, accompanied by the Royal Opera House Choir and Orchestra under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Genres

Cast

Sondra Radvanovsky

Manon Lescaut

Levente Molnár

Lescaut

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Chevalier Renato Des Grieux

Eric Halfvarson

Geronte di Ravoir

Aled Hall

Il maestro di ballo