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	Manon Lescaut: Synopsis
		Manon keeps instructing the hair-dresser, and, when the toilet is finally completed, steps forward to be admired by her brother.
		Manon is alone, and busies herself arranging her toilet for the promenade, while waiting for the sedan chair Geronte has gone to order.
		Manon is in prison, and Des Grieux and Lescaut have come to Le Havre to be near her.
	opera.stanford.edu /Puccini/ManonLescaut/synopsis.html (1410 words)

	Manon Lescaut (Puccini) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Domenico Oliva and Luigi Illica, based on L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost.
		Lescaut returns with Geronte, who also is captivated by Manon, saying she will only be wasted upon a convent.
		Lescaut and Des Grieux linger near, By talking to her through the bars, they learn that she is to be deported to America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manon_Lescaut_(Puccini) (730 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manon Lescaut (Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut) is a short novel by French novelist Antoine François Prévost (the Abbé Prévost).
		Only the Princesse de Clèves can challenge comparison with her before or near to her own date, and in Manon Lescaut the plot is much more complete and interesting, the sentiments less artificial, and the whole story nearer to actual life than in Madame de la Fayette's masterpiece.
		The story is the basis for two popular operas, Manon (1884) by French composer Jules Massenet, and Manon Lescaut (1893) by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manon_Lescaut (391 words)

	Manon Lescaut @ Opera Holland Park, London: opera review
		Puccini's Manon Lescaut was an ideal choice, its high Romantic orchestration and volatile arias and duets giving the sprightly young cast the chance to throw plenty of energy into the work with great results.
		Manon was Puccini's first major success, and indeed it was his only opera to receive unanimous praise from audience and critics alike at its first performance.
		Puccini's final act focuses entirely on her death scene, which was sung with immense pathos and poignancy.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/ohp-manon-lescaut_0606.htm (829 words)

	Giacomo Puccini - His Life and the poetry of his Operas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Puccini, along with his brother Michele, who died young, were the fifth generation of a family of professional musicians and composers, living and working in and around Lucca, Tuscany Italy.
		Whilst Puccini was still working on Manon Lescaut, (1891) he bought a house in the small village of Torre del Lago by the side the lake Massaciùccoli, Giacomo loved to go shooting waterfowl and this was the ideal place, the rest of his operas with the exception of Turandot, were composed at Torre del Lago.
		From the merest hint in Prévost's novel, Puccini developed the embarkation scene of Manon Lescaut, a most unique scene in all opera, he invented the spine-chilling man hunt in La Fanciulla del West, and created the character of the slave girl Liù and the scene of her suicide in Turandot.
	www.bohemianopera.com /puccini.htm (2147 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Puccini
		Lescaut is taking his sister to a convent to complete her education, but finding her to be greatly admired by the wealthy Geronte, is quite willing to play a negative part and let the old satyr plot with the landlord to abduct Manon.
		Lescaut, who has been carousing with the students, hints that, as Des Grieux is not wealthy and Manon loves luxury, he will soon be able to persuade her to desert her lover for the rich Treasurer-General.
		Manon, Lescaut, Geronte, and old beaus and abbés, who have come in with Geronte, form for the dance, and a lesson in the minuet begins.
	www.music-with-ease.com /puccini-manon-lescaut.html (748 words)

	Lyric meets challenges of 'Manon Lescaut'
		His Manon Lescaut, though hardly less alluring than the fragile seamstress of "La Boheme" or the self-assured Tosca, is another matter.
		Manon is a role sopranos lust after, one that plunges from the highs of ardent romance and elegant frivolity to the depths of public humiliation and death.
		Manon Lescaut, it seemed, was always susceptible to the allures of wealth.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/cst-ftr-lyric02.html (911 words)

	Houston Grand Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When this disaster struck, Puccini was scraping by in Milan in near-poverty, short of money for rent and food and trying to support himself, his mistress and their little son.
		Late in April, Puccini wrote again to Michele, saying their great-uncle, who had provided a great deal of money for his education in Milan, wanted to be repaid the original amount with interest.
		Puccini, on the other hand, possessed that Italian clarity, which Verdi once described as âbright as the sunâ; and Manon Lescaut is an impassioned, spontaneous, rapturous, and naked outpouring of his genius.
	www.houstongrandopera.org /performances/background.aspx?perfid=13 (1383 words)

	pucciniana! giacomo puccini and manon lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Manon Lescaut: opera in 4 acts, libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Giulio Ricordi et.al., after 'L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut' by Abbé Prevost, music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), first performed on 1st February 1893 at the Teatro Regio, Turin, with the following cast:
		Puccini had now won a choice spot on the operatic map, in Italy as well as internationally.
		Manon Lescaut was performed within the year in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, St. Petersburg, Madrid and Hamburg.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/pucciniana/manon_lescaut.htm (652 words)

	Manon Lescaut
		Barely 35 years of age, Puccini came from a poor family, and was really only able to survive the years prior to the premiere of his Manon Lescaut in 1893 thanks to the generosity of his patron, the Milan music publisher Giulio Ricordi.
		However, Puccini did not compose the music in one go either, and had by no means completed it by the date of the premiere, making further slight changes to it up until 1922/23.
		Puccini's attempt to reveal the emotions of the leading male character by means of music rather than text obviously shifts the spotlight away from the figure of Manon slightly — and there is evidence that the composer was aware of this as he worked.
	www.wiener-staatsoper.at /Content.Node2/en/11882.php (895 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Giacomo Puccini, VIENNA, 02.06.2006 - 10.06.2006, STAATSOPER
		Lescaut and Brétigny arrive, the former to demand that Des Grieux marry Manon, the latter to tell the girl that Des Grieux is soon to be kidnapped by his irate father.
		Left alone, Manon is unable to resist the temptation of luxury offered her by Brétigny and bids a poignant farewell to the life she has shared with Des Grieux.
		Manon, surrounded by wealthy admirers, preens herself and sings a gavotte in praise of youth and pleasure.
	www.viennaticketoffice.com /detail_en.php?ID=72 (756 words)

	West Bay Opera
		This early work by Puccini, the first that brought him fame and fortune, is so rarely performed today that I had never had a chance to see it.
		The leads, sung at the Sunday afternoon performance by Paula Goodman Wilder as Manon Lescaut and by Gabriel Reoyo-Pazos as her lover Chevalier des Grieux, were spine-tingling in their perfection.
		Des Grieux, from a fine family, is a penniless student when he spots Manon as she alights from a carriage in Amiens, France, and he falls instantly in love.
	www.wbopera.org /reviews/TriValleyHerald/ManonLescaut.html (571 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Soprano takes on two demanding roles
		The Prévost novel on which the opera "Manon Lescaut" was based, "L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut," was published in 1731, not 1841.
		Now, it is another Manon — Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" — that brings her back to this city for her debut in that role.
		The story: Manon Lescaut, a young girl traveling to a convent with her brother, spurns a rich and elderly lover promoted by her brother in favor of the dashing young Chevalier des Grieux, whom she encounters by chance.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002143195_opera09.html (1244 words)

	Grandi Tenori.com » Audio of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Puccini paints them with an abundance of delicate and passionate melodies not to be found in any of his later operas.
		The scene in Manon Lescaut act III depicts the quay at the port of Le Havre.
		It is a typical aria in the Puccini's arsenal of “pezzi forti”.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /am/am.2003.05.htm (1484 words)

	Houston Grand Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Giacomo Puccini once described himself as âa mighty hunter of wild fowl, opera librettos and attractive women.â Born on December 22, 1858 in Lucca, Italy, Puccini was the last of five generations of respected musicians.
		Puccini was a perfectionist, fastidiously checking every historical and psychological point of his librettos.
		Manon Lescaut is based on the famous 18th-century novel LâHistoire de Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by AbbÃ© Antoine-FranÃ§ois PrÃ©vost, which was remarkable for the realism of its characters.
	www.houstongrandopera.org /page.aspx?pageid=275 (310 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		With “Manon Lescaut,” Puccini not only secured his first commercial triumph but also began to zero in on his authentic voice.
		Maybe too intelligent in fact: the one thing that seems missing is Manon as a lost girl, who simply doesn’t understand the consequences of her behavior.
		In the next act, a memorably harrowing rendition of the roll-call humiliation shows Manon and the other prostitute deportees lined up to be ritually shorn of their unadorned hair before they are forced to embark for America.
	www.classicstoday.com /Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.asp?Action=User&ID=434 (683 words)

	MANON LESCAUT
		Des Grieux is struck by Manon's beauty and engages her in conversation.
		Manon has left Des Grieux for Geronte after their money ran out, but now she longs to return to her romantic life with Des Grieux.
		Lescaut arrives and warns them that Geronte has denounced Manon and that the police are on their way.
	www.geocities.com /airepuccini_english/MANONLESCAUT.html (492 words)

	Amazon.com: Puccini: Manon Lescaut: Music: Giacomo Puccini,Jonel Perlea,Rome Opera Orchestra,Enrico Campi,Franco ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		So, we might imagine that Manon has pulled one of her cute little tricks in New Orleans, necessitating a quick journey up the river to, say, Saint Louis or maybe Saint Joseph, and from there an ill-planned dash onto the plains.
		Admittedly, she sounds a little long in the tooth for the role; Manon was supposed to be in her teens.
		Manon but she could give lessons to any soprano currently befoe the public in acting with the voice in this kind of music.
	www.amazon.com /Puccini-Manon-Lescaut-Giacomo/dp/B0007X9U0G (2145 words)

	Giacomo Puccini
		Scandal was unleashed in 1909 when a servant girl of the Puccinis, whom Elvira had accused of an intimate relationship with her husband, committed suicide.
		In his early 60s Puccini was determined to 'strike out on new paths' and started work on Turandot, based on a Gozzi play which satisfied his desire for a subject with a fantastic, fairy-tale atmosphere, but flesh-and-blood characters.
		Puccini's choral, orchestral and instrumental works, dating mainly from his early years, are unimportant, though the Mass in A-flat (1880) is still performed occasionally.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/puccini.html (869 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Riccardo Muti, CD
		Cura's partner in romance here is Maria Guleghina as Manon, and their yearning duets are among the performance's most satisfying moments.
		Guleghina's full, vibrant soprano might not convince you she's a convent-bound teenager in Act I, but she's touchingly vulnerable in the Act II show-stopper, "In quelle trine morbide." Maria Callas's recording of this role is still the benchmark.
		Puccini had his first great success in the opera house with "Manon Lescaut," and while his later masterpieces have maintained a more durable presence on the stage, the intense passions of this story still make for compelling musical theater in a performance as gripping as this one.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=Al4WGG0BC2&EAN=28946318621&ITM=6 (241 words)

	Opera Today : PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut
		Further, Puccini was drawn to musical developments in Germany, particularly those of Wagner, the reception of which in Italy was mixed at best.
		Sardou was unwilling to license his work to an unestablished composer; and Ricordi was reluctant to underwrite Manon Lescaut given the wide success of Massenet’s Manon that premiered in 1884.
		Lescaut comforts Geronte; he tells him that it will not be long before Manon comes to him as he knows how fond of luxury she is.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2005/10/puccini_manon_l.php (932 words)

	Manon Lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Des Grieux is warned by his friend Edmondo, who has overheard what Geronte is planning, and wastes no time in confessing to Manon that he is in love with her, a feeling which she reciprocates.
		Lescaut comforts Geronte; he tells him that it will not be long before Manon comes to him as he knows how fond of luxury she is.
		Manon has left Des Grieux, tired of living in modest circumstances, in favour of a more luxurious life with Geronte.
	www.bayerische.staatsoper.de /c.php/spielplan/v_inhaltsangabe.php?id=51&termin=&l=en&dom=dom1 (307 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Giacomo Puccini
		Manon is pretty, but is that enough to make the poet so crazy that he says on two occasions that he will kill himself and that he actually boards the prison ship with Manon to an unknown fate in America?
		Manon Lescaut, an opera that is not often produced, is that the audience gets an opportunity to understand where Puccini started his hugely successful opera career.
		Manon Lescaut is that stage director John Pascoe and Maestro Placido Domingo have moved the orchestral intermezzo from its usual place between Acts II and III.
	www.culturevulture.net /opera/ManonLescaut.htm (871 words)

	Dean's Food, Wine and Opera Notes: Manon Lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Manon Lescaut was Puccini's first success as an opera.
		Puccini did in fact wrote, don't be judgmental of it unless you are consistent.
		It is OK to say that Manon is not my favorite piece if that does not cloud the reviewer's ability to convey how he piece was interpreted.
	www.slowtrav.com /blog/dean/archives/000407.html (744 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Giacomo Puccini
		Edgar, when it appeared in 1889, was a failure, but Ricordi's faith was justified in 1893 by Manon Lescaut, in which the mature Puccini is already evident in the ardent and profuse melodic mastery which distinguishes the work.
		Turin 1896, was at first less successful than Manon, but it soon became what it remains, probably the most popular and generally beloved opera ever written, a masterpiece of characterization, sentiment, and craftsmanship.
		Nothing illustrates Puccini's instinctive theatrical skill more remarkably than the success with which he achieved the difficult feat of combining three contrasting 1-act operas in Il trittico (Triptych): a thriller in Il tabarro, a sentimental tragedy in Suor Angelica, and a comedy in Gianni Schicchi.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/puccini.html (597 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: The Other Manon
		Puccini was 31 at the time and struggling to make his mark after the uncertain reception of his first two operatic ventures.
		In making that remark, Puccini was not entirely fair to Massenet, who could evoke plenty of passion in certain scenes of his opera--notably the end of the third-act Church Scene where Manon successfully tempts Des Grieux to abandon his priestly vocation.
		Where Massenet brought Manon to a pitiless death on the road to her deportation from the port of Le Havre, Puccini followed Prévost's novel, transporting the death scene to a lonely road outside New Orleans.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/3906.html (1216 words)

	pucciniana! giacomo puccini and manon lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Manon Lescaut: opera in 4 acts, libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Giulio Ricordi et.al., after 'L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut' by Abbé Prevost, music by
		Manon: Cesira Ferrani; des Grieux: Giuseppe Cremonini; Lescaut: Achille Moro; Geronte: Alessandro Polonini.
		soundclip from an early Puccini song which provides the basic melody for des Grieux's 'Donna non vidi mai', plus part of the aria itself sung by Placido Domingo.
	www.ontopia.net /topicmaps/examples/opera/occurs/background-manon_lescaut.htm (639 words)

	Amazon.com: Puccini: Manon Lescaut: Music: Giacomo Puccini,James Levine,Mirella Freni,Luciano Pavarotti,Dwayne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As for Freni, who gave a great interpretation of Manon for Sinopoli on DG, she was successful in doing remakes of Tosca and Butterfly that depended on artistry to disguise vocal wear and tear.
		His first encounters with the Manon of Mirella Freni are mostly convincing, Freni injecting an extra dose of demureness in her interpretation of the part, from where she had it for Sinopoli ten years earlier on DGG.
		Manon, mi tradisce" after Taddei and Freni have been so elaborate with their lines,is sung blank, straight ahead with heavily elongated vowels, and same happens with the arioso that follows convincingly intimate exchange between lovers and a fine Lamplighter's solo by a young Paul Groves.
	www.amazon.com /Puccini-Manon-Lescaut-Giacomo/dp/B00000418G (1992 words)

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