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Manon
Opéra Bastille - from 05 to 26 February 2022
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Manon
Opera Jules Massenet
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Opéra Bastille - from 05 to 26 February 2022
3h50 with 2 intervals
Language : French
Surtitle : French / English
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Opening night : 5 Feb. 2022
About
In few words:
In 1731, when the abbé Prévost wrote l’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – which would serve as inspiration for Massenet’s Manon – he was presenting us with a portrait of an era: that of the French Regency, which saw the dying days of an old society and the apparent birth of a new one in which the promise of freedom seemed to abound. Manon would steer a course between these two worlds, escaping the convent to embrace the paths of desire and transgression and throw herself headlong into a passionate, yet self-destructive love affair with Des Grieux. A parenthesis opens only to close painfully in the night. Director Vincent Huguet breaks free from historical trappings to place the work in the splendour and heady days of the Roaring Twenties.
CHARACTERS
Le Chevalier des Grieux: Manon’s lover
Lescaut: Manon’s cousin
Le Comte des Grieux: The Chevalier’s father
Guillot de Morfontaine: An old rake
Brétigny: Manon’s wealthy patron
Poussette, Javotte, Rosette: Three demimondaines
- Opening
- First part 75 mn
- Intermission 25 mn
- Second part 65 mn
- Intermission 25 mn
- Third part 40 mn
- End
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Manon
Opera in five acts
After le roman de l’abbé Prévost - 1884
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Music :
Jules Massenet - (1842-1912)
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Libretto :
Henri Meilhac
Philippe Gille
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Conductor :
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Director :
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Set design :
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Costume design :
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Lighting design :
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Choreography :
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Dramaturgy :
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Chorus master :
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Manon :
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Le chevalier des Grieux :
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February 5, 8 and 17
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February 11, 14 and 20
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February 23 and 26
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Le comte des Grieux :
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Guillot de Morfontaine :
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Brétigny :
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5 Feb
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Poussette :
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Lescaut :
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Javotte :
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Rosette :
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L'hôtelier :
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Deux gardes :
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Performances
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Gallery
Audio clips
Manon (saison 19/20)- ACTE 3 (Pretty Yende)
Manon (saison 19/20)- ACTE 3 (Roberto Tagliavini)
Manon (saison 19/20)- (Pretty Yende, Benjamin Bernheim)
Manon (saison 19/20)- ACTE 1 (Ludovic Tézier)
Media coverage
Vincent Huguet stages a powerful and intense Manon, reviving Jules Massenet’s voluptuous 1884 masterpiece.
Beaux-ArtsA dazzling Manon.
Le quotidien du médecinManon: a majestic comeback at the Paris Opera!
L'avant-Scène Opéra
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