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
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
Manon
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Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the
Geraldine Farrar in the title role
"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 as Le Chevalier des Grieux (1909, by Aleksandr Golovin)
American soprano Sibyl Sanderson as Manon in 1888