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2025 / AROP evening / Opera
26 May.

Manon

Première

    Opéra Bastille

    19h

    Duration
    3h50

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  • 1st part
    19h00
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h15
  • 2nd part
    20h40
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h45
  • 3rd part
    22h10
  • End of the performance
    22h50

“Let us love, laugh and sing without end”, proclaims Manon, even more attracted by jewels and the easy life than by her love – however sincere – for the Chevalier des Grieux. If this opera, inspired by Abbé Prévost’s novel, is one of Jules Massenet’s most popular, it is because the drama is portrayed in a musical idiom as fertile as it is varied.

Alternating recitatives, musical forms reminiscent of the 18th century and grand lyrical or virtuoso arias (“Manon, sphynx étonnant”, “Je marche sur tous les chemins”), the score renews the conventions of “opéra-comique”.

Manon

Production de 2019 - Vincent Huguet

  • Music

    Jules Massenet
    (1842-1912)

  • Conductor
    Pierre Dumoussaud
  • Chorus master
    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • 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

Cast

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Nadine
Sierra

Manon

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Benjamin
Bernheim

Le Chevalier des Grieux

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Andrzej
Filończyk

Lescaut

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Nicolas
Cavallier

Le Comte des Grieux

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Nicholas
Jones

Guillot de Morfontaine

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Régis
Mengus

De Brétigny

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Ilanah
Lobel-Torres

Poussette

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Marine
Chagnon

Javotte

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Maria Warenberg

Rosette

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Philippe
Rouillon

L'Hôtelier

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Laurent
Laberdesque

Deux gardes

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Olivier
Ayault

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus