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Manon is a French opera in five acts by Jules Massenet, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on March 19, 1884, libretto by Henri Meilhac et Philippe Gile, after the Abbé Antoine-François Prévost's L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas.

Principal roles and voice types

  • Manon - soprano
  • Chevalier des Grieux - tenor
  • Lescaut - baritone
  • Comte des Grieux - bass
  • Guillot de Morfontaine - tenor
  • Monsieur de Brétigny - baritone
  • The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Vikings Books, 1989.

Images for kids

  • Autour d'une partition - Charles Baude after Albert Aublet

    "Gathering around a score" by Charles Baude (1853–1935) shows Massenet rehearsing Manon with Sibyl Sanderson in Pierre Loti's drawing room. It was used as the cover of Le Théâtre in July 1889.

  • Dmitri Smirnov by Alexander Golovin

    Dmitri Smirnov as Le Chevalier des Grieux (1909, by Aleksandr Golovin)

  • Sibyl Sanderson as Manon

    American soprano Sibyl Sanderson as Manon in 1888

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Manon para niños

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