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, Giuseppe Giacosa, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva, based on the
Kristine Opolais
…is the most compelling Met Cio-Cio-San since Diana Soviero last sang the role here nearly 20 years ago." Opolais performed the title role in Puccini's Manon Lescaut at Covent Garden in the 2013/14 season and also at the New York Met in February and March 2016. In February and March 2017, she appeared as Rusalka in…
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