New York's Heartbeat Opera will present MANON!, a musical theater revamp of the iconic story of love, glamour, and reinvention. Heartbeat takes a radically new approach to Massenet's 1884 French opera ...

Massenet's most famous opera, a moralistic story of love versus materialism, should be full of wit, passion and drama but this production at the Royal Opera House, whilst enjoyable, could do with more ...

He also stressed that the choice of the singer to play Manon herself was crucial, needing an "artist who suited this role just as I wanted, and who could represent perfidious and dear Manon with all ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The role of Lescaut will be performed by French-Irish baritone Edwin ...

In this Opera Cheat Sheet Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give an overview of Massenet's...oops, wrong one!...Giacomo Puccini's take on the ...

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost and should not be confused ...

Coursing through the work was one basic idea: the helter-skelter philosophy of the diagonal, of the slide, of the see-saw. Everyone in Manon is rising or falling. It dictates Chantal Thomas's simple, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As the curtain went up on Thursday night on Manon, that super-efficient balletic machine, a woman near me ...