Massenet's most famous opera, a moralistic story of love versus materialism, should be full of wit, passion and drama but this production at the Royal Opera House, whilst enjoyable, could do with more ...

New York's Heartbeat Opera will present MANON!, a musical theater revamp of the iconic story of love, glamour, and reinvention. Heartbeat takes a radically new approach to Massenet's 1884 French opera ...

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. The libretto is in Italian, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The role of Lescaut will be performed by French-Irish baritone Edwin ...

In this Opera Cheat Sheet Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give an overview of Massenet's...oops, wrong one!...Giacomo Puccini's take on the ...

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 ...

In both these respects, this Covent Garden revival of Laurent Pelly's production is swimming against the tide. Manon is not the box office draw it once was. The performances in this run are also all ...

Lisette Oropesa as Manon and Michael Fabiano as des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon. Marty Sohl / Met Opera The lurid theatrical form called melodrama is often packed with precipitous plot twists and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As the curtain went up on Thursday night on Manon, that super-efficient balletic machine, a woman near me ...