Destined for the convent, the young Manon falls head over heels in love with a handsome stranger and decides to flee with him. Yet aspiring to a life of wealth and luxury, she ends up throwing herself into the arms of a rich nobleman. Can she forget her true love?

Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists succeed each other in trying to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini struggling perhaps to make his opera sufficiently different from Massenet’s on the same subject? Puccini probably never reached a ‘definitive’ form of this opera but it was his first international success and arguably the first in which the composer found his voice as a musical dramatist. Opera Poznań has entrusted their new production - streamed live on the opening night - to a former winner of the European Opera Directing Prize, Gerard Jones, and conductor Marco Guidarini.

Full performance streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 8 June 2024 at 19:00 CET and available until 8 December 2024 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/ma...

0:00 Introduction
2:27 Act 1
38:22 Intermission
59:24 Act 2
1:40:24 Intermission
2:01:11 Act 3
2:27:36 Act 4
2:48:45 End

CAST

Manon
Iwona Sobotka

Des Grieux
Dominik Sutowicz

Lescaut
Jaromir Trafankowski

Geronte de Ravoir
Rafał Korpik

Edmond
Piotr Kalina

Innkeeper and captain
Michał Korzeniowski

Ballet master
Bartłomiej Szczeszek

Singer
Laura Wąsek

Sergeant
Tomasz Mazur

Lamplighter
Marek Szymański

Orchestra
Poznań Opera Orchestra

Chorus
Poznań Opera Chorus

Music
Giacomo Puccini

Text
Luigi Illica
Marco Praga
Domenico Oliva

Conductor
Marco Guidarini

Director
Gerard Jones

Scenography
Blanca Añón

Light
Marc Gonzalo

Costume
Donna Raphael

Chorus Master
Mariusz Otto

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