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 ...

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 ...

On November 24, 2019, San Francisco Opera presented Giacomo Puccini's third opera, MANON LESCAUT with two spectacularly large-voiced singers, Liana Haroutounian and Brian Jagde. In a most forthright ...

Kristine Opolais in Act 2 of ‘Manon Lescaut’ (all photos by Ken Howard, courtesy Metropolitan Opera) (click to enlarge) The Met’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, directed by Richard Eyre, ...

This Manon Lescaut, from her story put down by Abbé Prévost in 1731, is still too strong for an opera: after all here we have the fate of a priest, who had abandoned his cassock for a woman hardly any ...

Soprano Patricia Racette is the greatest advertisement for Puccini’s heroines. His operas dominate her resume, and no wonder. She owns a voice that gravitates to his expansive Italian lines and ...

Where: Colorado Mountain College, Finkel Auditorium; 107 Denison Placer Road, Breckenridge Cost: Student $10 / Senior (65+) $16 / Adult $20; purchase tickets by calling (970) 453-5825 or nromusic.com ...

The Eastern Opera of NJ will present Giacomo Puccini’s first masterpiece, “Manon Lescaut,” at the newly renovated Brook Arts Center at 10 Hamilton St. in Bound Brook for performances on Friday, Nov. 9 ...

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 ...

However, it has be said that Jude Christian’s production seriously misfires. Often crass and crude, strewn with farcical, pointless bits of business and dressed in a repulsive palette of ...

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