Manon Lescaut – Donna non vidi mai (Jonas Kaufmann, A Royal Opera)

Könyvkiadó-ra augusztus Royal Opera House 21, 2015
Jonas Kaufmann as Des Grieux sings ‘Donna non vidi mai’ from Act I of Jonathan Kent’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, A Royal Opera, 2014.

Puccini’s publisher tried to prevent him from adapting Abbé Prévost’s L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – Massenet had already created a highly successful opera based on the novel. Puccini azonban nem, hogy térítse, claiming ‘a woman like Manon can have more than one lover’. Annak ellenére, hogy a problémás terhesség (öt librettists részt vettek a projekt), a premierje a Manon Lescaut-ban 1893 was Puccini’s first major triumph – a hit with critics and the public alike.