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

Zverejnené na august opery 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, 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. Ale nie je to byť odradení Puccini, claiming ‘a woman like Manon can have more than one lover’. Napriek nepokojnej tehotenstva (päť libretista sa zapojili do projektu), premiéra Manon Lescaut v 1893 was Puccini’s first major triumph – a hit with critics and the public alike.