If Puccini knew one thing, it’s that nobody got rich by underestimating the public appetite for sex and seediness. In order to make his mark on the operatic world he took the bold decision to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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