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Manon Lescaut / by Giacomo Puccini ; producer, Götz Friedrich ; produced by BBC TV in association with NVC Arts ; directed by Humphrey Burton.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, composer.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Standardized Title:
- Manon Lescaut
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Televised performances.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Berlin State : C Major Entertainment, 1983.
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Manon Lescaut is one of the world's great love stories. It is a tragic tale of a beguiling young woman, torn between true love and a desire for wealth, who discovers she can't have both. A young student, Des Grieux, meets the beautiful, but capricious, Manon. They fall in love and he saves her from abduction by a rich old roué. But Manon cannot resist the lure of wealth and later allows herself to be seduced by the old man. Before long, however, she is bored, and when Des Grieux appears, her love is reignited. When the old man catches them together, Manon is arrested and deported to Louisiana. The compassionate ship's captain allows Des Grieux to go with her, and she dies in his arms in the desert.
- Participant:
- Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Chevalier Renato des Grieux), Thomas Allen (Lescaut), Forbes Robinson (Geronte di Ravoir), Robin Leggate (Edmondo), George MacPherson (Innkeeper), John Fryatt (Dancing master), Anna Cooper (Madrigal singer), Handel Thomas (Sergeant of archers), Mark Curtis (Lamp lighter), Roderick Earle (Naval Captain), Paschal Allen (Sergeant of soldiers) ; children from Burlington Danes School ; the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed March 18, 2022).
- "After the novel by Abbé Prévost."
- Recorded Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, England.
- OCLC:
- 1309920118
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