Tune in to Classical IPR this Saturday for a presentation of Daniel Auber’s "Manon Lescaut," performed at Teatro Regio in Turin under the baton of Guillaume Tourniaire, with Rocío Pérez, Sébastien Guèze and Armando Noguera in the leading roles.
Read more from Teatro Regio here.
From Teatro Regio: "Between the 1930s and 1950s, Daniel Auber and the playwright Eugene Scribe were the true champions of the Parisian theatre at the Opera-Comique. Among their most enduring successes is Manon Lescaut, created in 1856, inspired by the novel by Abbé Prévost.
"The more risqué aspects of the story were not suitable for a grand mid-19th-century theater frequented by proper families. Scribe therefore transformed Manon into a frivolous young girl, sincerely in love with Des Grieux but so unlucky that she always finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The opera and the novel coincide only in the finale, when the protagonist, condemned to exile, dies of exhaustion in the desert: never before had the Opéra-Comique presented an opera that ended in such a tragic manner."
This broadcast is presented as part of the WFMT Opera Series. The live radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera will resume in December 2025.
COMPOSER: Daniel Auber
LIBRETTO: Augustin Eugene Scribe
PRESENTING COMPANY: Teatro Regio
ENSEMBLE: Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Regio
CAST:
Manon Lescaut: Rocío Pérez
Des Grieux: Sébastien Guèze
Le Marquis d'Hérigny: Armando Noguera
Lescaut: Francesco Salvadori
Madame Bancelin: Manuela Custer
Monsieur Renaud: Guillaume Andrieux
Marguerite: Lamia Beuque
Gervais: Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani
Monsieur Durozeau: Paolo Battaglia
Sergeant: Tyler Zimmermann
A Bourgeois: José Medina
Zaby: Albina Tonkikh
Approx. length: 3 hours, 10 minutes
