Manon

Manon is a French opera in five acts by Jules Massenet, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on March 19, 1884, libretto by Henri Meilhac et Philippe Gile, after the Abbé Antoine-François Prévost's L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas.

Principal roles and voice types

• Manon - soprano
• Chevalier des Grieux - tenor
• Lescaut - baritone
• Comte des Grieux - bass
• Guillot de Morfontaine - tenor
• Monsieur de Brétigny - baritone

Manon Media

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  "Gathering around a score" by Charles Baude (1853–1935) shows Massenet rehearsing Manon with Sibyl Sanderson in Pierre Loti's drawing room. It was used as the cover of Le Théâtre in July 1889.

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  Dmitri Smirnov as Le Chevalier des Grieux (1909, by Aleksandr Golovin)

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  American soprano Sibyl Sanderson as Manon in 1888

Sources

• The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Vikings Books, 1989.