Jonel Perlea
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Ionel Perlea was a Romanian conductor particularly associated with the Italian and German opera repertories.
Ionel Perlea memorial house in Ograda
Poșta Română stamp from 1981 depicting Perlea
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
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Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva, based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The opera was first performed in 1893 in Turin, at the Teatro Regio.
Postcard commemorating the premiere
Advertisement for libretto, 1917
Manon's costume for act 2 designed by Adolfo Hohenstein for the world premiere
![Set design for act 2 by Ugo Gheduzzi [it] for the world premiere performance](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Manon_Lescaut_Act_2_set.jpg/500px-Manon_Lescaut_Act_2_set.jpg)
Set design for act 2 by Ugo Gheduzzi [it] for the world premiere performance