© Elena Bauer / OnP
Manon
Opéra Bastille
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
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.
Manon
Production de 2019 - Vincent Huguet
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Music
Jules Massenet
(1842-1912) -
Libretto
Henri Meilhac
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Libretto
Philippe Gille
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Conductor
Dan Ettinger
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Director
Vincent Huguet
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Director
Vincent Huguet
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Set design
Aurélie Maestre
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Costume design
Clémence Pernoud
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Lighting design
Bertrand Couderc
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Choreography
Jean-François Kessler
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Dramaturgy
Louis Geisler
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Chorus master
Alessandro Di Stefano
Cast
Yende
Manon
Bernheim
Le chevalier des Grieux
Tézier
Lescaut
Tagliavini
Le comte des Grieux
Briand
Guillot de Morfontaine
Doyen
de Brétigny
Berthon
Poussette
Saux
Javotte
Ireland
Rosette
Rouillon
L'hôtelier
Joguet
Deux gardes
Laberdesque
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris