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Manon, the beautiful offspring of an impoverished family, is send to a convent. On her journey, she meets the young aristocrat des Grieux, and they fall immediately in love. But there only chance to live together is to flee to Paris...

Drama Lirico in Four Acts

Text by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Giulio Ricordi, Giuseppe Adami and Giacomo Puccini after the "Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" of Abbé Antoine François Prévost

Sung in the original language. With German surtitles.
Sponsored by Sparkasse Leipzig.

Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Production: Giancarlo del Monaco
Stage design: Johannes Leiacker
Costumes: Birgit Wentsch
Choir director: Sören Eckhoff
Oper Leipzig Choir
Gewandhaus Orchestra


Starring

Manon Lescaut
Sondra Radvanowski
Francesca Patané

Sergeant Lescaut, her brother
Teddy T. Rhodes

Chevalier Des Grieux, student
Aleksandrs Antonenko
Antonello Palombi

Geronte de Ravoir
James Moellenhoff