Stephen Lawless’s production might be ill-focused but the singers are superb, particularly Peter Auty’s Des Grieux Like many opera companies, the Grange festival has been having its share of problems ...

The Washington National Opera’s brilliant revival of “Manon Lescaut” demonstrates that as early as 1893, when Giacomo Puccini was writing this, his first popular work, he knew well how to use music to ...

First impressions are important, but they shouldn't lead to snap judgment. It is usually wiser to stop and think, but in the world of opera – especially Puccini – lovers tend to fall in love at first ...

The Met's new production of Puccini's MANON LESCAUT opens February 12 with Kristine Opolais as the seductive, tragic heroine and Roberto Alagna in a role debut as her ardent lover, the Chevalier des ...

The page of a giant book filled the proscenium of the Kennedy Center Opera House and slid open, at the start of each scene, to reveal the events it was narrating. Cliche? Absolutely, but at least it ...

Dallas Opera's Gregory Kunde and Kristin Lewis perform in a dress rehearsal of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas on Feb. 27. Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor The ...

3 Review: FALSTAFF Shows that We Can Count on Juilliard for the Next Generation of Singers Manon Lescaut has been performed 224 times by the Met. Its first Met performance was in the presence of the ...

ACT ONE opens at a roadside inn near Amiens, France. While young students and townspeople entertain themselves, a stagecoach arrives. Its passengers include a rich, old man named Geronte. Others are a ...

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