Manon
Opera in 4 acts
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Manon
Opera in 4 acts

Jules Massenet
Manon

Opera in 4 acts

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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 310
  • Release: 02.02.2026
  • Term: 150:00
  • Genre: Classical Music
  • ISMN: 9790500078302
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'