Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

See also: Manon

Manon Lescaut is the third opera of Giacomo Puccini. Drawn from the novel Manon Lescaut of the Abbot Prévost, it was composed between 1889 and 1892 and was created in 1893.

This opera was its first great success. Its editor did not want any other opera on the novel of the Prevost abbot, since Jules Massenet had already done of them one which was excellent. What it did not know, it was that Daniel Auber, had also already written an opera to him above. Puccini thus continued what it had begun.

Data sheet

  • Title : Manon Lescaut
    • Description : Lyric drama in four acts
  • Booklet : Luigi Illica and Marco Praga, according to History of the knight of Grieux and of Manon Lescaut of the Abbot Prévost, starting from a draft of Ruggero Leoncavallo and with a complement of Domenico Oliva.
  • Composition: Summer 1889 at October 1892
  • Creation: Teatro Regio, Turin, 1893

Characters

Argument

Second half of the 18th century.

Act I

With Amiens.

In an inn. Crowd strolls in front of the frontage. Men drink and play charts… The students wait until the girls finish their work. Edmondo sings. The girls appear. De Grieux enters, but he is melancholic person and joint not with the others. They tease it. Manon and Lescaut go down from one fits with body. Of Grieux is enchanted by the beauty and the grace of Manon. It approaches some when it enters the inn. She promises to see it later and moves away. The students laugh at him, show it finger. She moves away with Geronte, also charmed to him by her beauty. From Grieux learns that Manon is sent to the convent by his/her parents.

Act II

With Paris.
Manon, tried by the richness, finally will live with Géronte de Ravoir, a treasurer, but she regrets nevertheless Of Grieux. After expresshaving expressed it in front of his/her brother, this one teaches him that Of Grieux enough money gained to go to see it. When Of Grieux arrives, it is furious against Manon because she forsook it but this one is able to allure it. Géronte arrives and surprises them embracing itself, then Manon makes fun of says him, him that it is old and ugly, whereas they, they are young people and beautiful. Géronte from goes away making pretense give up, but it makes stop Manon.

Act III

With the Harbor.

Manon is in prison. Lescaut and Of Grieux speak to him through the bars. They learn that it will be exiled in America. They try to deliver it but do not arrive there. A guard passes, escorting a group of women who go on the same boat as Manon. It joined them, pale and sad. Crowd makes brutal comments. Of Grieux tries to join Manon but the sergeant draws aside it abruptly. At this point in time the captain of the boat, seeing his pain, authorizes it to go up on board.

Act IV

In America.

Manon and Of Grieux appear, almost dead of tiredness after the voyage. They do not know where to go to spend the night. About Grieux worries about the state about Manon and share to seek water. Manon thinks that it gave up it. It returns but it is unfortunately too late and she dies in her arms.

Famous passages

  • Lovesong of Of Grieux: (act I)
  • Lovesong of Manon: (act II)
  • symphonic Interlude, conceived in the beginning to be played before current act II, become part in concert
  • Lovesong of Of Grieux: (act III)
  • Air of Manon: (act IV)

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Booklet of '' Manon Lescaut '' on the site OperaGlass
  • Distribution during creations and lists first representations in the principal countries on OperaGlass

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