Manon

Production de 2019 - Vincent Huguet

• Conductor

  James Gaffigan

• Music

  Jules Massenet
  (1842-1912)

• Libretto

  Henri Meilhac

• Libretto

  Philippe Gille

• 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

In 1731, when the abbé Prévost wrote l’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – which would serve as inspiration for Massenet’s Manon – he was presenting us with a portrait of an era: that of the French Regency, which saw the dying days of an old society and the apparent birth of a new one in which the promise of freedom seemed to abound. Manon would steer a course between these two worlds, escaping the convent to embrace the paths of desire and transgression and throw herself headlong into a passionate, yet self-destructive love affair with Des Grieux. A parenthesis opens only to close painfully in the night. Director Vincent Huguet breaks free from historical trappings to place the work in the splendour and heady days of the Roaring Twenties.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

Manon

Production de 2019 - Vincent Huguet

• Manon

  Ailyn Pérez

• Le chevalier des Grieux

  Roberto Alagna

• Le comte des Grieux

  Jean Teitgen

• Guillot de Morfontaine

  Rodolphe Briand

• Brétigny

  Marc Labonnette

• Poussette

  Andrea Cueva Molnar

• Lescaut

  Andrzej Filończyk

• Javotte

  Ilanah Lobel-Torres

• Rosette

  Jeanne Ireland

• L'hôtelier

  Philippe Rouillon

• Deux gardes

  Laurent Laberdesque

• Julien Joguet