A group of students, drinking outside the inn, mingles with the townspeople. The student des Grieux joins his friends. In answer to some chaffing by Edmondo, one of the students, he assures them that he has never known the pangs of love. To humor them he accosts a group of girls, asking if one of them will prove to be the one to ignite the spark in him.

Dramma 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
Duration of performance: Not known yet.

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