The Washington National Opera’s brilliant revival of “Manon Lescaut” demonstrates that as early as 1893, when Giacomo Puccini was writing this, his first popular work, he knew well how to use music to ...

The past is a deadly weapon.

Produced in collaboration with the Cleveland Women's Orchestra and stage directed by Dorota Sobieska, the Cleveland Opera will present Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in the Crystal Ballroom at the Tudor Arms ...

At the Opera will begin with an artist profile of American dramatic soprano Helen Traubel, followed by the feature opera, Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four ...

It's set in early 18th Century France—and Louisiana. Puccini felt that he could bring true Italian passion to the tale, and indeed he did. Though it’s an early work, it contains much of the rich, ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Opera is doing it again. Setting aside mainstream repertoire, it’s producing an opera largely unknown in Northeast Ohio. This Friday and Sunday, at the Tudor Arms Hotel ...

Soprano Patricia Racette is the greatest advertisement for Puccini’s heroines. His operas dominate her resume, and no wonder. She owns a voice that gravitates to his expansive Italian lines and ...

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The Sarasota Opera has staged plenty of Puccini — everything from “La Boheme” and “Madama Butterfly” to “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi” — but never the early triumph that launched his career in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Director Olivier Tambosi's production of Manon Lescaut, composer Giacomo Puccini's ...