Manon
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 26, 2012
Closed Apr 23, 2012
Opened Mar 26, 2012
Closed Apr 23, 2012
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Anna Netrebko's dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly's new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met's Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
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Laurent Pelly's new production of the Jules Massenet-Henri Meilhac-Philippe Gille opera Manon, now at the Metropolitan Opera, grows sexier both vocally (despite an opening-night missed high note by star Anna Netrebko) and emotionally as it heads inexorably towards higher dramatic and ultimately tragic heights.
For this production -- engineered by the Met, London's Royal Opera House, Milan's Teatro alla Scala and Toulouse's Capitole -- Pelly has the genuinely bright idea to update it from the early 18th Century (where Abbe Prevost set his 1731 novel and where productions are usually placed) to the Belle Epoque, during which Massenet and collaborators did their work -- and which they were cr[...]