2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera 4 Video: Lisette Oropesa Sings Act II Aria From I ...

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 ...

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 ...

He also stressed that the choice of the singer to play Manon herself was crucial, needing an "artist who suited this role just as I wanted, and who could represent perfidious and dear Manon with all ...

Manon prepares to enter a convent when she's struck by love at first sight with Chevalier des Grieux. It's unclear if he can hold her attention when her true loves are wealth and glamour. Laurent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and should not be confused ...

Coursing through the work was one basic idea: the helter-skelter philosophy of the diagonal, of the slide, of the see-saw. Everyone in Manon is rising or falling. It dictates Chantal Thomas's simple, ...

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 ...