Manon Lescaut
Dramma lirico in quattro atti
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Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut
Dramma lirico in quattro atti

Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut

Dramma lirico in quattro atti

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Description:

  • Pages: 388
  • Weight: 960 g
  • Genre: Classical Music
  • ISBN: 9788875929794
  • ISMN: 9790041390741
Manon Lescaut is the first volume of the series "The operas of Giacomo Puccini" - Critical Edition - in collaboration with Archivio storico Ricordi and Fondazione Simonetta Puccini. It makes available the three main versions of the opera that have survived in various sources: an 1893 version, with the original Act I finale, the first version of Manon's Act IV aria, and the uncut version of the final duet in Act IV; a "midcareer" version imagined by Puccini in the first decade of the new century, when he sanctioned the almost complete omission of Manon's Act IV aria; and finally the last version that Puccini lived to approve, with Manon's aria restored, albeit with a revised literary text.

The volume is introduced by a preface to the Puccini Critical Edition, an historical introduction, a detailed description of the opera's many sources and a lengthy critical commentary which discusses numerous problematic details in the musical text.