Manon

Production de 2019 - Vincent Huguet

• Music

  Jules Massenet
  (1842-1912)

• Libretto

  Henri Meilhac

• Libretto

  Philippe Gille

• Conductor

  Dan Ettinger

• Director

  Vincent Huguet

• Director

  Vincent Huguet

• Set design

  Aurélie Maestre

• Costume design

  Clémence Pernoud

• Lighting design

  Bertrand Couderc

• Choreography

  Jean-François Kessler

• Dramaturgy

  Louis Geisler

• Chorus master

  Alessandro Di Stefano

When, in 1731, l’Abbé Prévost wrote L’Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – the work that inspired Massenet’s Manon – he portrayed an entire era, that of the Regency, which saw the old order fade away and a new order, full of the promise of unprecedented freedom, rise from its ashes. Manon must make her way between these two worlds, fleeing the convent in order to embrace the paths of desire and transgression, throwing herself headlong into a burning and destructive passion with Des Grieux. A parenthesis opens, only to close again in suffering and obscurity. The director Vincent Huguet casts the work’s customary taffeta aside in order to bring out its violence to the full.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

Manon

Production de 2019 - Vincent Huguet

• Manon

  Pretty Yende

• Le chevalier des Grieux

  Benjamin Bernheim

• Lescaut

  Ludovic Tézier

• Le comte des Grieux

  Roberto Tagliavini

• Guillot de Morfontaine

  Rodolphe Briand

• de Brétigny

  Pierre Doyen

• Poussette

  Cassandre Berthon

• Javotte

  Alix Le Saux

• Rosette

  Jeanne Ireland

• L'hôtelier

  Philippe Rouillon

• Deux gardes

  Julien Joguet

• Laurent Laberdesque