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

Royal Opera House, publicat pe august 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, 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. Dar Puccini a fost să nu fie descurajaţi, claiming ‘a woman like Manon can have more than one lover’. În ciuda o gestaţie tulbure (cinci libretiștii au fost implicate în proiect), premiera de Manon Lescaut în 1893 was Puccini’s first major triumph – a hit with critics and the public alike.