Kungliga Operan Publicerad den aug 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, Kungliga Operan, 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. Men Puccini skulle inte avskräckas, claiming ‘a woman like Manon can have more than one lover’. Trots en orolig dräktighet (fem librettister var engagerade i projektet), premiären av Manon Lescaut i 1893 was Puccini’s first major triumph – a hit with critics and the public alike.

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