Manon Lescaut

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.

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Cast

Sondra Radvanovsky

Manon Lescaut

Levente Molnár

Lescaut

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Chevalier Renato Des Grieux

Eric Halfvarson

Geronte di Ravoir

Luis Gomes

Edmondo

Aled Hall

Il maestro di ballo

David Junghoon Kim

Un lampionaio

David Shipley

Un sergente degli arceri

Nicholas Crawley

Il Commandante di Marina

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House