First impressions are important, but they shouldn't lead to snap judgment. It is usually wiser to stop and think, but in the world of opera – especially Puccini – lovers tend to fall in love at first ...

Washington National Opera (WNO) continues its 2012-2013 season with Puccini's Manon Lescaut, March 2 to 23 in the Kennedy Center Opera House. American soprano Patricia Racette makes her role debut as ...

Dallas Opera's Gregory Kunde and Kristin Lewis perform in a dress rehearsal of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas on Feb. 27. Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor The ...

Giacomo Puccini was right on time. With Italy’s greatest opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi, in the twilight of his career, it appeared the country’s status as an operatic epicenter might end with the ...

SEATTLE – Manon Lescaut wants it all – money, nice things and true love – and she wants it now. But as we know, life doesn’t always work that way, and that’s true for the tragic heroine of the Puccini ...

From the Met’s new Manon Lescaut. Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera The beauty of certain sturdy operas is that they can survive just about any directorial manhandling if the singing is good enough ...

Kristine Opolais in Act 2 of ‘Manon Lescaut’ (all photos by Ken Howard, courtesy Metropolitan Opera) (click to enlarge) The Met’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, directed by Richard Eyre, ...

On November 24, 2019, San Francisco Opera presented Giacomo Puccini's third opera, MANON LESCAUT with two spectacularly large-voiced singers, Liana Haroutounian and Brian Jagde. In a most forthright ...

ACT ONE opens at a roadside inn near Amiens, France. While young students and townspeople entertain themselves, a stagecoach arrives. Its passengers include a rich, old man named Geronte. Others are a ...

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