Jules Massenet
Manon
Opera in 4 acts
Jules Massenet
Manon
Opera in 4 acts
- Instrumentation Soloists, Choir and Piano
- Composer Jules Massenet
- Editor Kurt Honolka
- Lyricist Henri Meilhac Philippe Gille
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- Publisher Alkor-Edition
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Description:
Opéra comique in five acts (1884)
Libretto: Henri Meilhac and Philippe-Emile-François Gille (after Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles' Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut from the Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité qui s'est retiré du monde from 1731) (French)
Premiere: 19. January 1884, Paris, Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart)
Translation: Kurt Honolka (German, in four acts)
Place and time of action: Amiens and Paris as well as on the road to Le Havre, 1721
People:
Manon Lescaut - soprano
Pousette - soprano
Javotte - soprano
Rosette - mezzo-soprano
Count Des Grieux - bass
Chevalier Des Grieux - tenor
Guillot de Morfontaine - tenor
Lescaut, Manon's cousin - baritone
De Brétigny, tax collector - baritone
The innkeeper - bass
A guardsman - tenor
Speaking roles: second guardsman
the porter in St. Sulpice
a sergeant
a soldier
a servant at Manon
Chorus: waiters, inhabitants of Amiens, travelers, postilions, porters, ladies and gentlemen of society, the chapel choir at St. Sulpice
Statisterie: male and female players, cardsharps, croupiers, policemen, soldiers
Ballet: kitchen boys, party guests
Orchestra: 2(Picc),2(Eh),2,2 - 4,2,3,0 - Pk,Schlg(3) - Hfe - Str
Stage music: Klar,Fag,GI,Org,Str(without Va)
Duration: approx. 2h 30'
Libretto: Henri Meilhac and Philippe-Emile-François Gille (after Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles' Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut from the Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité qui s'est retiré du monde from 1731) (French)
Premiere: 19. January 1884, Paris, Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart)
Translation: Kurt Honolka (German, in four acts)
Place and time of action: Amiens and Paris as well as on the road to Le Havre, 1721
People:
Manon Lescaut - soprano
Pousette - soprano
Javotte - soprano
Rosette - mezzo-soprano
Count Des Grieux - bass
Chevalier Des Grieux - tenor
Guillot de Morfontaine - tenor
Lescaut, Manon's cousin - baritone
De Brétigny, tax collector - baritone
The innkeeper - bass
A guardsman - tenor
Speaking roles: second guardsman
the porter in St. Sulpice
a sergeant
a soldier
a servant at Manon
Chorus: waiters, inhabitants of Amiens, travelers, postilions, porters, ladies and gentlemen of society, the chapel choir at St. Sulpice
Statisterie: male and female players, cardsharps, croupiers, policemen, soldiers
Ballet: kitchen boys, party guests
Orchestra: 2(Picc),2(Eh),2,2 - 4,2,3,0 - Pk,Schlg(3) - Hfe - Str
Stage music: Klar,Fag,GI,Org,Str(without Va)
Duration: approx. 2h 30'